percentage-knee-replacements-completed-within-target

INDICATOR NAME

Name

Percentage of knee replacements completed within target time by priority level

Alternate Name

Percentage of knee 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 decided to proceed with knee 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 knee replacement surgery wait times is within the access targets

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

All knee 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

Comments Summary

If patient unavailable dates fall outside the Decision to Treat Date up to Procedure Date, the patient unavailable dates are not deducted from the patient's wait days. These are considered data entry errors.