TABLE 3.
Core set of performance indicators for the Ontario health system scorecard
| Performance dimension | Performance indicators |
|---|---|
| Increase availability of high-quality, relevant evidence | Qualitative assessment of the availability of high-quality, relevant evidence for decision-making |
| Increase access to and uptake of evidence for decision-making and accountability | Percentage of clinical cases being treated according to clinical practice guidelines |
| Increase productive use and appropriate allocation of resources across the system | Percentage of alternate level of care (ALC) days |
| Emergency department visits that could be managed elsewhere | |
| Hospitalization rate for ambulatory care–sensitive conditions | |
| Increase access to key healthcare services | Median wait times in priority areas: cancer surgery, cardiac procedures, cataract surgery, joint replacement, MRI/CT scan, long-term care placement |
| Population aged 12 and over who report having a regular medical doctor | |
| Regular provider of diabetes care | |
| Percentage of population who report unmet need | |
| Improve patient-centredness, integration and quality of health services | Percentage of patients with cancer who died in acute care beds |
| Perceptions of availability and quality of healthcare servicesy | |
| Inpatient readmission rates for acute myocardial infarction, psychiatric conditions, neonatal care | |
| Percentage of people accommodated in their first choice of long-term care home | |
| Percentage of adverse events (in-hospital fractures, new stage 2+ skin ulcers in chronic-stay patients) | |
| Improve healthy behaviours through health promotion and disease prevention | Risk factors for chronic disease |
| Flu vaccination | |
| Preventive screening | |
| Improve clinical outcomes | 30-day post-hospital acute myocardiai infarction (AMI) survival rate |
| 5-year survival rate for prostate, breast, colorectal and lung cancer | |
| Measure of functional improvement for rehabilitation patients | |
| Improve health status | Teenage pregnancy rates |
| Sexually transmitted disease (STD) rates | |
| Potential years of life lost (PYLL) | |
| Health-adjusted life expectancy (HALE) for overall population | |
| Increase sustainability and equity of the health system | Healthcare spending |
| Change in productivity | |
| Change in health human resources supply |