Quality Indicator Repository

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.

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 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.

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.

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. The services submit the number of patients admitted within seven days and the total number of patients admitted in the reporting month, the percentage is calculated by the Business Intelligence Unit.

Wait time to admission is calculated in calendar days from the date of receipt of referral to the date of admission to the specialist palliative care inpatient unit. Each day (inclusive of weekends and bank holidays) that the patient waits to be admitted is counted, with wait times categorised as follows: 0-7 days; 8-14 days; 15-28 days; greater than 28 days. When a referred patient is offered a specialist palliative care bed but, due to external factors, is unable to be admitted, the count of the wait time is paused until the patient becomes available for admission. It is possible that the same patient can be referred twice to the service during the reporting month. Each episode of care is to be counted in the data return.

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.

Percentage of admitted long-term home care clients who were assessed in the reporting fiscal year.

The presence and availability of workers in the organisation. Item 9.1 The extent to which clients or representatives experience sufficient availability of staff (and continuity).

Number of days until cardiac rehabilitation program commencement from receipt of referral/referral date.

Time from elderly people being granted the right to accommodation until an offer is made.

Average time from elderly people being granted the right to accommodation until an offer is made.

Percentage that meet the Standard: Maximum two weeks from receipt of referral of any patient with breast symptoms (where cancer is not suspected) to first hospital assessment.

Cancer patients who started receiving palliative care and died within one week after start of palliative care.

Percentage that meet the standard: Maximum two weeks from receipt of urgent referral for suspected cancer to first outpatient attendance (from a General Medical Practitioner, General Dental Practitioner, Optometrist and any other referral source as agreed locally by commissioners and providers).

Percentage of cardiac rehabilitation (CR)-eligible patients enrolled in a program post hospital discharge.

Percentage of cardiac rehabilitation participants completing an initial assessment and participating in at least one education and/or exercise intervention.

Percentage of cardiac rehabilitation referrals that participate in an initial assessment.

Percentage of eligible inpatients who were referred to cardiac rehabilitation (CR) and who enrol in CR within 30 days after hospital discharge.

The median number of days between receipt of referral at the cardiac rehabilitation (CR) program to patient enrolment.

Proportion of eligible patients referred to specialised palliative care who had contact.

How long after admission or after palliative care was started, did the professional carers and family have a conversation about the patient's care preferences?