This indicator shows the percentage of patients receiving publicly funded home care who had an unplanned visit to the emergency department in the last 30 days of life.
Such visits can be an extremely difficult experience for patients and could indicate they did not receive the care they needed in the community.
A lower percentage is better.
Description:
The number of decedents specified in the denominator who had at least one unplanned emergency department visit in the last 30 days before death
Inclusions:
Unscheduled/unplanned emergency department visits are identified by:
NACRS variables VISITTYPE = [1,2,4] or SCHEDEDVISIT = N, where VISITTYPE values are:
1 = Unplanned Emergency Department visit for a new clinical condition
2 = Unplanned return visit to Emergency Department for the same clinical condition
3 = Planned return visit to follow-up to the Emergency Department visit for the same clinical condition
4 = Patients referred for Emergency Department service provider assessment
5 = Patients referred and seen by a non-Emergency Department service provider
SCHEDEDVISIT values:
N = not scheduled
Y = scheduled
Description:
The number of home care patients who died in the given fiscal year
Exclusions:
Decedents who were in hospital for the entire period of 30 days before death, as people who are in hospital during this time cannot have an unplanned emergency department visit.
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