Percentage-hip-replacements-completed-within-target

INDICATOR NAME

Name

Percentage of hip replacements completed within target time by priority level

Alternate Name

Percentage of hip replacements completed within target time by priority level

INDICATOR DESCRIPTION

Description

This indicator measures the percentage of patients who met the access targets from when a patient and surgeon decide to proceed with hip replacement procedure (decision-to-treat) until when the actual procedure is completed. A higher percentage is better.

HQO Reporting tool/product

Public reporting

Dimension

Timely

Type

Process

DEFINITION AND SOURCE INFORMATION

Unit of Measurement

Percentage

Calculation Methods

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

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

Number of patients whose hip replacement surgery wait times is within the access targets.

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

All hip replacement (i.e. primary/revision, total/partial) surgeries meeting the inclusion/exclusion criteria.

Adjustment (risk, age/sex standardization)- generalized

None

Data Source

Wait Time Information System (WTIS)

Data provided to HQO by

Cancer Care Ontario (CCO)

Reported Levels of comparability /stratifications (defined)

Region, Time

OTHER RELEVANT INFORMATION

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