Quality Indicator Repository

Quality indicators are standardised, evidence-based measures used to monitor and evaluate the quality and safety of care. The ACAC developed a Quality Indicator Repository. For information on its development see this document.

Please navigate the Quality Indicator Repository to learn about the quality indicators we identified across care settings and their defining, data, and source attributes.  You can also use the Quality Indicator Repository to download quality indicators of interest to you.

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Care TransitionsUnited States of AmericaAgency for Healthcare Research & Quality and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS): Medicare Fee-for-Service Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers & Systems (CAHPS) survey

In the last 6 months, how often did you get an appointment to see a specialist as soon as you needed? Never/Sometimes/Usually/Always.

Residential Aged CareUnited Kingdom, Channel Islands and Isle of ManDepartment of Health and Social Care: Adult Social Care Outcomes

Proportion of people who use services who report that their home/care home is as clean and comfortable as they want.

Home CareNetherlandsQuality Framework Responsible Care for the sector Nursing, Care and Homecare

The possibilities for daytime activities. Item 6.1 The extent to which clients or representatives experience adequate possibilities to spend the day and to participate in society.

Residential Aged CareNetherlandsRegister of Care Institute, National Quality Organisation

The possibilities for daytime activities.

Care TransitionsAustraliaVictorian Agency for Health Information: Victorian Healthcare Experience Survey - Adult Inpatient

Percentage of positive responses for Thinking about when you left hospital, were adequate arrangements made by the hospital for any services you needed? (E.g. Transport, Meals, Mobility Aids) Yc - Yes, Completely Yt - Yes, To Some Extent N - No Id - I Didn't Need This.

Care TransitionsAustraliaNew South Wales Health Bureau of Health Information: Adult Admitted Patient Survey

Percentage of survey respondents who selected a specific response option to the question: Thinking about when you left hospital, were adequate arrangements made for any services you needed (e.g. equipment, home care, community care, follow-up appointments)?

Care TransitionsAustraliaNew South Wales Health Bureau of Health Information: Rural Hospital Adult Admitted Patient Survey

Percentage of patients who selected the most positive response option to the question: Thinking about when you left the hospital, were adequate arrangements made by the hospital for any services you needed (e.g. equipment, home care, community care, follow-up appointments)?

Care TransitionsAustraliaNew South Wales Health Bureau of Health Information: Rural Hospital Emergency Care Patient Survey

Percentage of patients who selected the most positive response option for the question: Thinking about when you left the ED, were adequate arrangements made by the hospital for any services you needed? (out of Yes, completely; Yes, to some extent; No, arrangements were not adequate; These services were not offered in the area).

Palliative CareBelgiumQuality Indicators for Palliative Care (Q-PAC)

Did you feel that the professional carers gave you all the help and support you needed to care for your relative?

Care TransitionsEnglandUrgent and Emergency Care Survey

Answered by those who were not admitted/transferred to a hospital ward. Percentage of responses for each option: Did staff give you enough information to help you care for your condition at home?

Care TransitionsEnglandNational Health Service (NHS): Adult Inpatient Survey

Percentage of responses for each option of the question: Were you given enough notice about when you were going to leave hospital?

Palliative CareBelgiumQuality Indicators for Palliative Care (Q-PAC)

Did you feel supported by the professional carers immediately after the death of your relative? Was there a farewell- or staff appraisal interview that looked back on the care and treatment that was provided? Were the possibilities of after-care pointed out to you after the death of your relative?

Care TransitionsEnglandNational Health Service (NHS): Adult Inpatient Survey

Percentage of responses for each option of the question: After leaving hospital, did you get enough support from health or social care services to help you recover or manage your condition?

Home CareFinlandSecond-generation interRAI Home Care Quality Indicators (HCQIS)

Proportion of home care clients who are distressed by a decline in social activities and are alone for long periods or all the time at follow-up. Prevalence indicator.

Care TransitionsAustraliaNew South Wales Health Bureau of Health Information: Rural Hospital Emergency Care Patient Survey

Percentage of patients who selected the most positive response option for the question: How would you rate how the ambulance crew and Emergency Department staff worked together? (out of Very good; Good; Neither good nor poor; Poor; Very poor).

Residential Aged CareSwedenSwedish National Board of Health and Welfare (SNBHW): Open Comparisons Monitoring System

Proportion of residents with an updated care plan.

Home CareUnited States of AmericaCenters for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS): Home Health Quality Reporting Program

Percentage of home health quality episodes in which patients' mobility and self-care functional status was documented and at least one discharge goal was recorded.

Residential Aged CareGermanyMedical Review Board (MRB) quality-related criteria for nursing homes.

Are individual needs and habits of the residents regarding oral and dental hygiene taken into account and being carried out accordingly?

Residential Aged CareGermanyMedical Review Board (MRB) quality-related criteria for nursing homes.

Are individual needs and habits of the residents regarding personal hygiene taken into account and being carried out accordingly?

Care TransitionsScotlandScottish Care Experience Survey Programme: Inpatient Experience Survey

Percentage of people who answered in a positive way to 'Were you confident that any care or support services you needed had been arranged before you left hospital?'

Care TransitionsScotlandScottish Care Experience Survey Programme: Inpatient Experience Survey

Percentage of people who answered Yes to 'If your condition meant you were eligible for hospital transport to take you home, were you happy with how this was arranged?'

Care TransitionsScotlandScottish Care Experience Survey Programme: Inpatient Experience Survey

Percentage of people who answered in a positive way to 'Overall, how would you rate the arrangements made for you leaving hospital?'

Rehabilitation CareCanadaGrace et al. (2014)

Percentage of cardiac rehabilitation (CR) patients with assessment for depression or depressive symptoms.

Palliative CareBelgiumQuality Indicators for Palliative Care (Q-PAC)

Did the professional carers ask how you were feeling?

Palliative CareBelgiumQuality Indicators for Palliative Care (Q-PAC)

Have your professional carers checked how you are feeling? Yes, regularly. Yes, once. No.

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