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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
Percentage of home care patients whose wait time for their first nursing visit was within five days from the date they were authorized for nursing services by the LHIN	This indicator measures the percentage of home care patients authorized for nursing services who received their first nursing visit within five days. The wait time is described as the number of days between service authorization date and the date of formal in-home nursing. A higher percentage is better.	17/11/2017	Home Care, Process, Wait Times, Timely, Client Health and Related Information System (CHRIS), Home Care Database (HCD)	Add to compare
Percentage of hospital readmissions within 1 year	Percentage of patients who were re-admitted to a hospital for urgent and emergent care within 1 year of discharge (adjusted and unadjusted percentages)	12/04/2016	Acute Care/Hospital, Primary Care, Process, Readmission, Effective, Discharge Abstract Database (DAD)	Add to compare
Percentage of hospital readmissions within 30 days	Percentage of patients who were re-admitted to a hospital for urgent and emergent care within 30 days of discharge (adjusted and unadjusted percentages)	12/04/2016	Acute Care/Hospital, Primary Care, Process, Readmission, Effective, Discharge Abstract Database (DAD)	Add to compare
Percentage of knee replacements completed within target time by priority level	This indicator measures the percentage of patients who met the access targets from when a patient and surgeon decided to proceed with knee replacement procedure (decision-to-treat) until when the actual procedure is completed. A higher percentage is better.	13/10/2016	Acute Care/Hospital, Process, Wait Times, Timely, Wait Time Information System (WTIS)	Add to compare
Percentage of long stay home care patients who experience a communication problem (retired)	This indicator measures the percentage of long-stay home care patients who developed a problem communicating or understanding others or who had already been identified as having an existing communication problem but experienced no improvement since their previous assessment. A lower percentage is better.	15/02/2019	Home Care, Outcome, Other, Effective, Home Care Reporting System (HCRS)	Add to compare