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The Ontario Health Indicator Library provides a fully searchable library of indicator profiles reported by OH and other entities. The library will feature indicator characteristics, including: the indicator definition, the rationale as to why (or why not) an indicator is reported, technical specifications, alignment information, information about data sources, and links to those sources. In addition to a keyword search, you can perform side-by-side comparisons of up to three indicators, based on different filters, such as sector, dimension, type, topic, and data source. You can also export the indicator definitions to a format of your choice.

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Name	Description	Last update date	Tags
Opioid-poisoning deaths	This indicator measures the rate of deaths for opioid poisonings, per 100,000 people. It includes all deaths where opioid poisoning was considered as contributing to the cause of death. A lower rate is better.	11/05/2020	Other, Outcome, Population Health, Effective, Office of the Chief Coroner for Ontario, Ontario Opioid-Related Death Database, Population estimates, MOHLTC, Intellihealth Ontario, Population projections	Add to compare
Hospital Standardized Mortality Ratio (HSMR) (Retired)	HSMR is a ratio of the actual number of in-hospital deaths in a region or hospital to the number that would have been expected based on the types of patients a region or hospital treats.	31/01/2020	Acute Care/Hospital, Outcome, Patient Safety and Never Events, Effective, Safe, Discharge Abstract Database (DAD)	Add to compare
Patient involvement in decisions about care	Percentage of patients and clients who were always or often involved in the care decisions when they saw their doctor or nurse practitioner.	20/01/2020	Primary Care, Outcome, Patient Reported Measures, Patient-centred, Local data collection	Add to compare
Repeat emergency visits for mental health	Percent of unscheduled repeat emergency visits following an emergency visit for a mental health condition.	20/01/2020	Acute Care/Hospital, Process, Mental Health and Addiction, Effective, National Ambulatory Care Reporting System (NACRS)	Add to compare
Medication reconciliation at admission (Retired)	Total number of patients with medications reconciled as a proportion of the total number of patients admitted to the hospital.	08/01/2020	Acute Care/Hospital, Process, Patient Safety and Never Events, Safe, Local data collection	Add to compare