Proportion-decedents--palliative-home-care-last-90-days

INDICATOR NAME

Name

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

Alternate Name

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

INDICATOR DESCRIPTION

Description

The proportion of decedents that had one or
more palliative home care services (excluding
care management and placement services)
in their last 90 days 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 or long-term care for the last 90 days of life

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

All decedents who had at least one palliative home care service (HCD: service_rpc, src_admission or src_discharge=
95 and home care service [excluding case management and placement services] in the reporting period) 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), 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 higher value (%) is desirable for this indicator