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Name	Description	Last update date	Tags
Percentage of complex home care patients whose wait time for their first personal support visit was within five days from the date they were authorized for personal support services by the LHIN	This indicator measures the percentage of complex home care patients aged 19 and older who waited five days or less for personal support services. The wait time is described as the number of days between the service authorization date and the date of receipt of Local Health Integration Network (LHIN) in-home personal support. 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
Antipsychotics New Starts: Percentage of residents aged 66 and older diagnosed with dementia, without psychosis, who were newly prescribed an antipsychotic medication	This indicator measures the percentage of Long-Term Care residents diagnosed with dementia but not diagnosed with psychosis, who had at least one antipsychotic medication dispensed in the reporting period and did not have an antipsychotic medication dispensed in the preceding 12 months.	10/11/2017	Long Term Care, Outcome, Other, Effective, Patient-centred, Discharge Abstract Database (DAD), Ontario Drug Benefit (ODB), Ontario Health Insurance Plan (OHIP) Claims History Database, Ontario Mental Health Reporting System (OMHRS), Physician Database (IPDB), Registered Persons Database (RPDB)	Add to compare
Hand hygiene compliance among health care providers	This indicator measures the percentage of hand hygiene compliance by health care providers before and after initial patient or patient environment contact.	19/10/2017	Acute Care/Hospital, Process, Patient Safety and Never Events, Safe, Self-Reporting Initiative (SRI)	Add to compare
Antibiotic-resistant bloodstream infections	This indicator measures the incidence rate of nosocomial (hospital-acquired) Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus areus (MRSA) and Vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus (VRE) infections associated with the reporting facility per 1,000 inpatient days.	19/10/2017	Acute Care/Hospital, Outcome, Patient Safety and Never Events, Safe, Self-Reporting Initiative (SRI)	Add to compare
Diabetes eye exams	This indicator measure the percentage of Ontarians with diabetes aged 20 and older who had an eye exam within a 2- year period. A higher percentage is better.	16/10/2017	Primary Care, Process, Chronic Disease, Prevention / Screening, Effective, Ontario Diabetes Database (ODD), Ontario Health Insurance Plan (OHIP) Claims History Database	Add to compare