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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
Infant Mortality, per 1000 live births (Retired)	This indicator measures the number of infants who die in the first year of life, expressed as a rate per 1,000 live births. A lower rate is better.	17/04/2018	Other, Outcome, Population Health, Effective, Canadian Birth Database (CBDB), Canadian Mortality Database (CMDB), Vital Statistics, Birth and Death Databases	Add to compare
90th percentile emergency department length of stay by patient group (Retired)	This indicator measures the maximum amount of time (in hours) in which 9 of 10 patients have completed their emergency department visits to go home or be admitted to hospital as an inpatient. Two patient groups are as follows: 1. All admitted patients plus non_admitted patients with CTAS Level in ('1','2','3') 2. All non_admitted patients with CTAS Level in ('4','5') A lower number of hours is better.	17/04/2018	Acute Care/Hospital, Process, Access, Wait Times, Timely, National Ambulatory Care Reporting System (NACRS)	Add to compare
Surgical Safety Checklist Compliance	This indicator measures the percentage of surgeries in which a surgical safety checklist was used. The surgical safety checklist is considered to be completed when the designated checklist coordinator confirms that surgical team members have implemented and or addressed all of the necessary tasks and items in each of the three phrases, ‘briefing’, ‘time out’ and ‘debriefing’, of the checklist.	26/03/2018	Acute Care/Hospital, Process, Patient Safety and Never Events, Safe, Self-Reporting Initiative (SRI)	Add to compare
Total number of patients who had an emergency department visit	This indicator measures the total number of patients that completed an emergency department (ED) visit. The ED visit begins with the earlier of triage date/time or registration date/time and ends at the date/time when a patient is admitted to the hospital or discharged, transferred, or leaves the ED (non-admitted patients).	18/12/2017	Acute Care/Hospital, Process, Wait Times, Timely, National Ambulatory Care Reporting System (NACRS)	Add to compare
Total number of patients waited for first assessment in emergency department	This indicator measures the total number of patients who waited to see a doctor, nurse-practitioner or dentist in the emergency department.	18/12/2017	Acute Care/Hospital, Process, Wait Times, Timely, National Ambulatory Care Reporting System (NACRS)	Add to compare