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The Ontario Health Indicator Library provides a fully searchable library of indicator profiles reported by OH and other entities. The library will feature indicator characteristics, including: the indicator definition, the rationale as to why (or why not) an indicator is reported, technical specifications, alignment information, information about data sources, and links to those sources. In addition to a keyword search, you can perform side-by-side comparisons of up to three indicators, based on different filters, such as sector, dimension, type, topic, and data source. You can also export the indicator definitions to a format of your choice.

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Name	Description	Last update date	Tags
Alternate level of care (ALC) days expressed as a percentage of all inpatient days in the same period	Percentage of inpatient days where a physician (or designated other) has indicated that a patient occupying an acute care hospital bed has finished the acute care phase of his/her treatment. This indicator can be stratified by characteristics such as age or discharge destination (see Comments section for details).	02/12/2021	Other, Process, Efficient, Discharge Abstract Database (DAD), OHTAM (Ontario Health Teams Attribution Model), Registered Persons Database (RPDB)	Add to compare
Alternate Level of Care (ALC) rate	This indicator measures the total number of alternate level of care (ALC) days contributed by ALC patients within the specific reporting month/quarter using near-real time acute and post-acute ALC information and monthly bed census data. Alternate level of care (ALC) refers to those cases where a physician (or designated other) has indicated that a patient occupying an acute care hospital bed has finished the acute care phase of their treatment. A lower rate is better.	20/12/2019	Acute Care/Hospital, Process, Access, Integration, Efficient, Bed Census Summary (BCS), Wait Time Information System (WTIS)	Add to compare
Antibiotic-resistant bloodstream infections	This indicator measures the incidence rate of nosocomial (hospital-acquired) Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus areus (MRSA) and Vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus (VRE) infections associated with the reporting facility per 1,000 inpatient days.	19/10/2017	Acute Care/Hospital, Outcome, Patient Safety and Never Events, Safe, Self-Reporting Initiative (SRI)	Add to compare
Antibiotics Prolonged Treatment: Percentage of antibiotic treatments that were longer than seven days	This indicator measures the percentage of antibiotic treatments prescribed that were longer than seven days.	24/09/2019	Long Term Care, Process, Drugs/Drug Administration, Effective, Ontario Drug Benefit (ODB), Ontario Health Insurance Plan (OHIP) Claims History Database	Add to compare
Antipsychotic Polypharmacy: Percentage of residents aged 66 and older with concomitant prescriptions for at least two different antipsychotic medications (retired)	This indicator provides information on your residents aged 66 and older who have concomitant prescriptions for at least two different antipsychotic medications, each for 90 continuous days.	27/03/2017	Long Term Care, Outcome, Drugs/Drug Administration, Effective, Discharge Abstract Database (DAD), Ontario Drug Benefit (ODB), Ontario Health Insurance Plan (OHIP) Claims History Database, Ontario Mental Health Reporting System (OMHRS), Registered Persons Database (RPDB)	Add to compare