End-of-life-preferred-place-of-death - Health Quality Ontario (HQO)

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INDICATOR NAME

Name

End of life, preferred place of death (Retired)

Alternate Name

End of life, preferred place of death

INDICATOR DESCRIPTION

Description

This indicator measures the percentage of palliative/end of life patients who died in their preferred place of death.

HQO Reporting tool/product

Quality Improvement Plans (QIPs)

Dimension

Patient-centred

Type

Outcome

DEFINITION AND SOURCE INFORMATION

Unit of Measurement

Percentage

Calculation Methods

The percentage is calculated as: numerator divided by denominator times 100.

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

Number of palliative / end of life patients who died in their preferred place of death. Patient must be discharged with a disposition of death in the period selected.

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

Number of palliative/ end of life patients whose discharge disposition is death in the reporting period.

Adjustment (risk, age/sex standardization)- generalized

None

Data Source

Client Health and Related Information System (CHRIS)

Data provided to HQO by

Health Shared Services Ontario (HSSO)

OTHER RELEVANT INFORMATION

Comments Summary

This is a QIP priority indicator for 2018/19. QIP current performance reporting period: October 2016 - September 2017 To access your organization's data for the reporting period, refer to Health Quality Ontario’s QIP Navigator. Data will be available in February 2018. Alternatively, to access your organization's data for this indicator, refer to CCAC Reporting Portal. This indicator was retired in the 2019/20 QIP.