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INDICATOR NAME
Name
Percentage of urgent coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) completed within the target time
Alternate Name
Percentage of urgent coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) completed within access target
 
INDICATOR DESCRIPTION
Description

This indicator measures the percentage of patients that require urgent coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery and receive it within the recommended maximum wait time target for this procedure. Wait times were calculated from the day the patient and doctor decided to go ahead with the procedure, to the day it was performed. A higher percentage is better.

HQO Reporting tool/product
Public reporting
Dimension
Timely
Type
Process
 
DEFINITION AND SOURCE INFORMATION
Unit of Measurement
Percentage
Calculation Methods
The percentage is calculated as: numerator divided by the denominator times 100
Numerator (short description i.e. not inclusions/exclusions)
Number of urgent CABG surgeries (P2) completed within recommended maximum wait time
Denominator (short description i.e. not inclusions/exclusions)
All adult urgent CABG surgeries that are done within Ontario's 18 advance cardiac service hospitals 
Adjustment (risk, age/sex standardization)- generalized
None
Data Source
Wait Time Information System (WTIS)
Data provided to HQO by
Cardiac Care Network (CCN)
Reported Levels of comparability /stratifications (defined)
Time
 
OTHER RELEVANT INFORMATION
Caveats and Limitations
Data cannot be reported by Local Health Integration Network (LHIN) region because cardiac centres are not distributed across all LHINs
Comments Summary
NA
 
TAGS
Sector
Acute Care/Hospital
Type
Process
Topic
Access, Wait Times
Dimension
Timely
Source
Wait Time Information System (WTIS)
 
PUBLISH
Publish Datetime
13/10/2016 14:15:00