up-to-date-hospitalization - Health Quality Ontario (HQO)

INDICATOR NAME

Name

Primary care provider up-to-date on hospitalization

Alternate Name

Percentage of people aged 16 and older who reported that their provider was up-to-date following their discharge from hospital

INDICATOR DESCRIPTION

Description

The percentage of people 16 and older who reported in a survey that their primary care provider seemed up-to-date about their hospitalization, among those who had a primary care provider and were admitted to hospital in the previous 12 months

HQO Reporting tool/product

Public Reports (annual report, bulletins and theme reports)

Dimension

Effective

Type

Outcome

DEFINITION AND SOURCE INFORMATION

Unit of Measurement

Percentage

Calculation Methods

Numerator divided by the denominator times 100

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

Weighted number of people who answered "yes" to the question "After you were discharged from hospital, did your provider seem informed and up-to-date about the care you received in the hospital?"

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

Weighted total number of survey respondent who had a primary care provider and were admitted to hospital in the previous 12 months

those who responded " yes" to the Question: "In the last 12 months, have you been hospitalized overnight?" (response options: "1 yes"; "5 no"; "8 don’t know"; "9 refused")

Adjustment (risk, age/sex standardization)- generalized

None

Data Source

Health Care Experience Survey (HCES)

Data provided to HQO by

Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care (MOHLTC)

OTHER RELEVANT INFORMATION

Caveats and Limitations

Only people aged 16 years and older can complete the survey People living in institutions, in households without telephones, and those with invalid/missing household addresses in the Registered Persons Database (RPDB) are excluded. Respondents who were unable to speak English or French or were not healthy enough (physically or mentally) to complete the interview were not surveyed.

Comments Summary

Weighted to account for the design characteristics of the survey and post-stratified by age and sex to reflect the Ontario population. In addition, the LHIN and community weighting is applied. The data source for international and provincial comparisons is Commonwealth Fund International Health Policy Survey 2016 . The survey population is adults aged 18 and older. The education stratification analysis is done among those aged 25 and older. Urban/rural status is defined using Statistics Canada's Statistical Area Classification. Household income analysis does not consider the household composition.