Quality Indicator Repository

This is a composite measure about access to care.

Percentage of people told by a specialist if they had cancer, or if cancer was definitively excluded, within four weeks (28-days) of an urgent referral.

Percentage of Heart Failure patients who participated in an outpatient cardiac rehabilitation or disease management program within 30 days of discharge.

Percentage of Heart Failure patients who are referred to an outpatient cardiac rehabilitation or disease management program within 30 days of discharge.

Percentage of home care patients who received their first nursing visit within 5 days of the patient available date (Retired).

This indicator measures the percentage of complex home care patients who received their first personal support service visit within five days of the patient available date (PAD). (Retired)

Proportion of eligible referrals that started treatment within 62 days of receipt of an urgent referral with suspicion of cancer

Percentage that meet the Standard: Maximum two months (62 days) from from receipt of an urgent referral for urgent suspected cancer or breast symptomatic referral, or urgent screening referral or consultant upgrade to First Definitive Treatment of cancer

Percentage of non-same day separations from inpatient units where the consumer was discharged to a private residence or accommodation, for which an ambulatory service contact was recorded in the 7 days post separation.

Proportion of MHA-related hospital discharges where the patient was seen by a primary care provider, psychiatrist and/or paediatrician within 7 days

Percentage of those hospital discharges (any condition) where timely (within 48 hours) notification was received, for which follow-up was done (by any mode, any clinician) within 7 days of discharge.

Percentage of patients who have had a 7-day post-hospital discharge follow-up by a primary care provider (physician or nurse practitioner) for the following conditions: pneumonia, diabetes, stroke, gastrointestinal disease, congestive heart failure, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and cardiac conditions.

Percentage of patients or clients who see their primary care provider within 7 days after discharge from hospital for selected conditions. The percent of enrolled patients with an acute inpatient hospital stay for: Acute Myocardial Infarction (AMI) Cardiac Conditions Congestive heart failure (CHF) Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Pneumonia Diabetes Stroke Gastrointestinal Disease

Number of days that 90% of patients waited for their initial specialist outpatient appointment. After receiving a valid referral from a GP, clinicians will give the patient a clinical urgency category depending on the urgency of their condition and place them on the outpatient waiting list. There are three urgency categories, where 1 is most urgent and 3 is least urgent.

If you ask to make an appointment with a doctor 3 or more working days in advance, does your General Practice allow you to? The response options to Question 4 are: (1) Yes, (2) No, (3) Don't know.

Patients who were able to get a same-day or next-day appointment when sick.

Enrollee experience related to the following: Got care as soon as needed, Got non-urgent appointment as soon as needed, How often it was easy to get necessary care, tests, or treatment, Got appointment with specialists as soon as needed.

To determine the percentage of patients accessing specialist palliative care inpatient beds within seven days. This is the calculation of the number of patients who were admitted to a specialist palliative care inpatient bed within seven days of receipt of referral expressed as a percentage of the total number of patients admitted in the reporting month.

Proportion of patients with a final diagnosis of acute stroke seen by a physiotherapist within 48 hours of hospital presentation

Proportion of patients with a final diagnosis of acute stroke assessed for ongoing rehabilitation using a structured assessment tool prior to separation from acute care.

The emergency department stay length at the 90th percentile (in hours and minutes) for all patients presenting to a public hospital emergency department (including publicly funded privately operated hospitals) who are subsequently admitted to the same hospital.

Percentage of patients admitted within 4 hours of arrival at the ED

Time (in minutes) from admit decision time to time of departure from the ED for patients admitted to inpatient status.

Median time from admit decision time to time of departure from the emergency department for emergency department patients admitted to inpatient status.

The number and proportion of ambulance transfers delayed >30 minutes.