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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
Use of Surgical Safety Checklist	This indicator measurs the percentage of surgeries in which a surgical safety checklist (SSC) was performed. The surgical safety checklist is considered performed when the designated checklist coordinator confirms that surgical team members have implemented and or addressed all of the necessary tasks and items in each of the three phrases, ‘briefing’, ‘time out’ and ‘debriefing’, of the checklist.	11/11/2016	Acute Care/Hospital, Process, Patient Safety and Never Events, Safe, Self-Reporting Initiative (SRI), Surgical Efficiencies Target Program (SETp)	Add to compare
Ventilator-associated Pneumonia (VAP) Rate per 1,000 Ventilator Days	This indicator measures the number of ICU patients with ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) per 1,000 ventilator days.	11/11/2016	Acute Care/Hospital, Outcome, Patient Safety and Never Events, Safe, Critical Care Information System (CCIS)	Add to compare
Rate of Central Line-Associated Primary Bloodstream Infection (CLI)	The indicator measures the number of intensive care unit (ICU) patients with new central line-associated primary blood stream infection per 1,000 central line days.	11/11/2016	Acute Care/Hospital, Outcome, Patient Safety and Never Events, Safe, Critical Care Information System (CCIS)	Add to compare
Hand Hygiene Compliance Before and After Patient Contact	This rate measures hand hygiene compliance rate by the indication, before initial patient or patient environment contact or after patient or patient environment contact. Hand hygiene compliance before patient contact is a QIP indicator.	11/11/2016	Acute Care/Hospital, Process, Patient Safety and Never Events, Safe, Self-Reporting Initiative (SRI)	Add to compare
Seasonal influenza vaccination (Retired)	Percentage of people who report having a seasonal flu shot in the past year. Based on Canadian Community Health Survey (CCHS) or the Commonwealth Fund Survey. CCHS question "have you had a seasonal flu shot?". CF questionA: "When did you have your last flu shot?"	27/10/2016	Primary Care, Outcome, Prevention / Screening, Effective, In-house data collection	Add to compare