Decedents-emergency-department-visits-last-30-days-life

INDICATOR NAME

Name

Proportion of decedents with 1 or more emergency department visits in the last 30 days of life

Alternate Name

Proportion of decedents with 1 or more emergency department visits in the last 30 days of life

INDICATOR DESCRIPTION

Description

Average days at home (180 minus total days
in hospital, emergency department, inpatient
rehab and complex continuing care) in the last 6 months of life

HQO Reporting tool/product

Ontario Health Teams: Quality

Dimension

Patient-centred

Type

Outcome

DEFINITION AND SOURCE INFORMATION

Unit of Measurement

Percentage

Calculation Methods

Decedents that were hospitalized in an acute care facility for the last 30 days of life

Numerator (short description i.e. not inclusions/exclusions)

The number of decedents who had one or more unplanned emergency department visits in their last 30 days of
life

Denominator (short description i.e. not inclusions/exclusions)

The number of OHT attributed patients that died in the reporting period

Adjustment (risk, age/sex standardization)- generalized

Risk adjusted

Data Source

Continuing Care Reporting System (CCRS), Discharge Abstract Database (DAD), National Ambulatory Care Reporting System (NACRS), National Rehabilitation Reporting System (NRS), OHTAM (Ontario Health Teams Attribution Model), Ontario Mental Health Reporting System (OMHRS), Registered Persons Database (RPDB)

Data provided to HQO by

Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES)

OTHER RELEVANT INFORMATION

Caveats and Limitations

A lower value (%) is desirable for this indicator