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INDICATOR NAME
Name
Home support for discharged palliative patients (Retired)
Alternate Name
Home support for discharged palliative patients
 
INDICATOR DESCRIPTION
Description
Percent of palliative care patients discharged home from hospital with the discharge status "Home with Support"
HQO Reporting tool/product
Quality Improvement Plans (QIPs)
Dimension
Patient-centred
Type
Outcome
 
DEFINITION AND SOURCE INFORMATION
Unit of Measurement
Rate per total number of discharged patients
Calculation Methods
The percentage is calculated as: numerator divided by the denominator times 100
Numerator (short description i.e. not inclusions/exclusions)
Number of inpatient acute care discharges who are discharged "home with support"
Denominator (short description i.e. not inclusions/exclusions)
The number of home discharges in the reporting period with a hospital admission which indicates that the patient is receiving palliative care
Adjustment (risk, age/sex standardization)- generalized
None
Data Source
Discharge Abstract Database (DAD)
Data provided to HQO by
Cancer Care Ontario (CCO)
 
OTHER RELEVANT INFORMATION
Comments Summary
This is a QIP priority indicator for 2018/19. QIP Current performance reporting period: April - March the following year How to access data: refer to Health Quality Ontario's QIP Navigator, data will be available in February 2018. This indicator was retired in the 2019/20 QIP.
 
TAGS
Sector
Acute Care/Hospital
Type
Outcome
Topic
Access, End-of-life / Palliative
Dimension
Patient-centred
Source
Discharge Abstract Database (DAD)
 
PUBLISH
Publish Datetime
05/03/2019 17:43:00