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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
Emergency Department Visits by Home Care Patients within 30 Days of Leaving Hospital	This indicator shows the percentage of new patients receiving publicly funded home care who had an unplanned emergency department visit within 30 days of leaving hospital, among those referred to home care from hospital or within 7 days of discharge. Timely follow-up after hospital discharge can help prevent the return of home care patients to the emergency department. A lower percentage is better.	16/04/2024	Home Care, Outcome, Integration, Efficient, Discharge Abstract Database (DAD), Home Care Database (HCD), National Ambulatory Care Reporting System (NACRS), Registered Persons Database (RPDB)	Add to compare
Emergency Department visits deliberate self-harm	This indicator measures the number of emergency department visits for deliberate self-harm per 1,000 population	08/02/2021	Acute Care/Hospital, Other, Outcome, Mental Health and Addiction, Effective, National Ambulatory Care Reporting System (NACRS), Registered Persons Database (RPDB)	Add to compare
Emergency department visits for conditions best managed elsewhere (Retired)	Percentage of patients or clients who visited the emergency department (ED) for conditions “best managed elsewhere"	27/10/2016	Primary Care, Outcome, Access, Efficient, Client Agency Program Data (CAPE), Corporate Provider Database (CPDB), Discharge Abstract Database (DAD)	Add to compare
Emergency department visits for conditions that could be treated in an alternative primary care setting (Retired)	This indicator describes the percentage of patients aged 1 to 74 who had an unscheduled emergency department visit that potentially could have been treated in an alternative primary care setting, such as a family doctor's office. A lower percentage is better.	20/11/2018	Acute Care/Hospital, Primary Care, Outcome, Integration, Efficient, National Ambulatory Care Reporting System (NACRS), Registered Persons Database (RPDB)	Add to compare
Emergency department wait time for inpatient bed	This indicator measures the time interval between the Disposition Date/Time (as determined by the main service provider) and the Date/Time Patient Left Emergency Department (ED) for admission to an inpatient bed or operating room.	20/12/2019	Acute Care/Hospital, Process, Wait Times, Timely, National Ambulatory Care Reporting System (NACRS)	Add to compare