Unplanned-emergency-department-visits-QIP - Health Quality Ontario (HQO)

INDICATOR NAME

Name

Unplanned emergency department visits QIP (Retired)

Alternate Name

Unplanned emergency department visits QIP

INDICATOR DESCRIPTION

Description

Percentage of home care clients with an unplanned, less-urgent ED visit within the first 30 days of discharge from hospital

HQO Reporting tool/product

Quality Improvement Plans (QIPs)

Dimension

Efficient

Type

Process

DEFINITION AND SOURCE INFORMATION

Unit of Measurement

Percentage

Calculation Methods

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

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

Number of adult home care clients who had an ED visit assessed at Canadian Triage and Acuity Scale levels 4 or 5 (but who were not admitted to hospital) in the first 30 days after hospital discharge.

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

All adult CCAC home care clients discharged from a hospital.

Adjustment (risk, age/sex standardization)- generalized

None

Data Source

Discharge Abstract Database (DAD), Home Care Database (HCD), National Ambulatory Care Reporting System (NACRS)

Data provided to HQO by

Health Shared Services Ontario (HSSO)

OTHER RELEVANT INFORMATION

Comments Summary

** This indicator is retired for 2020/21 ** This is a QIP priority indicator for 2019/20. QIP current performance reporting period: July 2017 - June 2018 To access your organization's data for the reporting period, refer to Health Quality Ontario’s QIP Navigator. Data will be available in February. Alternatively, you can access your organization's data for this indicator by visiting the CCAC Reporting Portal.