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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
Specialist visits-respirologist	The number of visits to the respirologist in the previous year by patients rostered or virtually rostered to the physician	12/04/2016	Primary Care, Process, Access, Efficient, Discharge Abstract Database (DAD), National Ambulatory Care Reporting System (NACRS), Ontario Health Insurance Plan (OHIP) Claims History Database, Physician Database (IPDB)	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
Test results not available	The percentage of people 16 and older who reported in a survey that test results were not available at the time of a scheduled appointment with their primary care provider with-in the previous 12 months, among those who had a regular primary care provider and who had a test within the previous 12 months	20/11/2018	Other, Outcome, Integration, Effective, Health Care Experience Survey (HCES)	Add to compare
Three or More CNS-Active Medications: Percentage of residents aged 66 and older who on a given day had prescriptions for three or more specified* CNS-active medications	This indicator estimates the percentage of residents who had three or more specified* medications dispensed that have central nervous system activity. This is estimated on a given day (the index date) during the reporting period.	13/04/2017	Long Term Care, Outcome, Other, 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
Time to specialist appointment	The percentages of people 16 and older who reported in a survey that they saw a specialist in: less than 30 days, 30 to 89 days, or 90 or more days, after referral by a primary care provider.	20/11/2018	Other, Process, Integration, Wait Times, Timely, Health Care Experience Survey (HCES)	Add to compare