Percentage-urgent-diagnostic-cardiac-catheterization

INDICATOR NAME

Name

Percentage of urgent diagnostic cardiac catheterization angiography completed within the target time

Alternate Name

Percentage of urgent diagnostic cardiac catheterization completed within access target

INDICATOR DESCRIPTION

Description

This indicator measures the percentage of patients that require urgent diagnostic cardiac catheterization and receive it within the recommended maximum wait time target. 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 denominator times 100

Numerator (short description i.e. not inclusions/exclusions)

Number of urgent (P2) diagnostic cardiac catheterization procedures completed within recommended maximum wait time

Denominator (short description i.e. not inclusions/exclusions)

All adult urgent diagnostic cardiac catheterization procedures that are done within Ontario's 18 advanced 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)

Region, 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.