Decedents-palliative-physician-home-visits-90-days-EN

INDICATOR NAME

Name

Proportion of decedents receiving palliative physician home visits in the last 90 days of life

Alternate Name

Proportion of decedents receiving palliative physician home visits in the last 90 days of life

INDICATOR DESCRIPTION

Description

The proportion of decedents that had one or more physician consults/ visits in their last 90 days of life with a corresponding palliative in home visit code

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 or long-term care for the last 90 days of life

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

All decedents with one or more physician consults/ visits in the reporting period with a corresponding palliative in home
visit code (G511, B966 [billed with B998.B996], B998, B997, A901, B990, B992, B993, B994, B996, A900, B960, B961, B962, B963, B964, B986, B987, B988) in their last 90 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), Ontario Health Insurance Plan (OHIP) Claims History Database, Ontario Mental Health Reporting System (OMHRS), Registered Persons Database (RPDB)

Data provided to HQO by

Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES)

OTHER RELEVANT INFORMATION

Comments Summary

A higher value (%) is desirable for this indicator