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.
Percentage of home health stays in which patients were admitted to an acute care hospital during the 60 days following the start of the home health stay.
Resident uptake of annual influenza vaccination.
Prevalence of antianxiety or hypnotic drug use.
Prevalence of antianxiety/hypnotic medication use.
Proportion of facilities that provide antibiogram to prescribers.
Proportion of leaders in small rural hospitals responsible for antibiotic stewardship.
Proportion of home care recipients who were dispensed an antibiotic.
Proportion of residents dispensed an antibiotic.
Proportion of facilities policy or formal procedure for other interventions to ensure optimal use of antibiotics.
Proportion of facilities that provide antibiotic use reports to prescribers, at least annually.
Proportion of residents present on the survey day who were prescribed at least one antimicrobial.
Prevalence of antipsychotic drug use in the absence of psychotic and related condition.
Percentage of long-term care (LTC) home residents without psychosis on antipsychotics in the last 7 days.
Proportion of home care recipients who were dispensed an antipsychotic.
Proportion of residents dispensed an antipsychotic.
Prevalence of antipsychotic use in absence of indication.
Prevalence of residents with any injury.
Percentage of quality episodes in which the patient experiences one or more falls with major injury (defined as bone fractures, joint dislocations, and closed-head injuries with altered consciousness, or subdural haematoma) during the home health episode.
Is the necessity of freedom restricting measures checked regularly?
Are compression stockings put on properly?
Are necessary measures for residents with incontinence or a bladder catheter taken?
Are individual nutritional resources and risks documented?
Are individual resources and risks regarding the supply of fluids documented?