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INDICATOR NAME
Name
Proportion of decedents receiving palliative home care in the last 90 days of life
Alternate Name
Proportion of decedents receiving palliative home care in the last 90 days of life
 
INDICATOR DESCRIPTION
Description
The proportion of decedents that had one or
more palliative home care services (excluding
care management and placement services)
in their last 90 days of life
Indicator Status
Active
HQO Reporting tool/product
Ontario Health Teams: Quality
Dimension
Patient-centred
Type
Outcome
 
DEFINITION AND SOURCE INFORMATION
Unit of Measurement
Percentage
Calculation Methods
Decedents that were hospitalized in an acute care facility or long-term care for the last 90 days of life
Numerator including inclusion/exclusion
Decedents that were hospitalized in an acute care facility or long-term care for the last 90 days of life
Denominator including inclusion/exclusion
The number of OHT attributed patients that died in the reporting period
Adjustment (risk, age/sex standardization)- detailed
Standardization
Data Source
Continuing Care Reporting System (CCRS), Discharge Abstract Database (DAD), National Ambulatory Care Reporting System (NACRS), OHTAM (Ontario Health Teams Attribution Model), Ontario Mental Health Reporting System (OMHRS), Registered Persons Database (RPDB)
Data provided to HQO by
Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES)
 
OTHER RELEVANT INFORMATION
Caveats and Limitations
A higher value (%) is desirable for this indicator
 
TAGS
Sector
Ontario Health Team
Type
Outcome
Topic
End-of-life / Palliative
Dimension
Patient-centred
Source
Continuing Care Reporting System (CCRS), Discharge Abstract Database (DAD), National Ambulatory Care Reporting System (NACRS), OHTAM (Ontario Health Teams Attribution Model), Ontario Mental Health Reporting System (OMHRS), Registered Persons Database (RPDB)
 
PUBLISH
Publish Datetime
10/03/2022 13:41:00