NQMC Update Service: January 28, 2013 ► Australian Council on Healthcare Standards

NQMC Update Service: January 28, 2013

January 28, 2013

NQMC Update Service: January 28, 2013

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) sent this bulletin at 01/28/2013 08:11 PM EST

January 28, 2013

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Measure Summaries

Australian Council on Healthcare Standards

• Access block: percentage of critical care admitted patients whose total ED time from time of arrival exceeded 4 hours, during the 6 month time period.

• Access block: percentage of mental health admitted patients whose total ED time from time of arrival exceeded 4 hours, during the 6 month time period.

• Access block: percentage of patients who were admitted or planned for admission without reaching an inpatient bed, transferred to another hospital for admission, or died in the ED whose total ED time exceeded 8 hours, during the 6 month time period. This updates a previously published measure summary.

• Acute myocardial infarction (AMI): percentage of patients with an AMI requiring thrombolysis who receive thrombolytic therapy within 30 minutes of presentation to the ED, as their primary treatment, during the 6 month time period. This updates a previously published measure summary.

• Discharge communication: percentage of patients 65 years or older discharged from the ED to home or residential accommodation with discharge communication provided to a primary care provider, during the 6 month time period.

• Discharge communication: percentage of patients 65 years or older who have had a documented risk assessment prior to discharge from the ED to home or residential accommodation, during the 6 month time period.

• Mental health assessment turnaround time: mean time (in minutes) from referral by an ED clinician to the mental health team to assessment by a mental health worker, during the 6 month time period.

• Mental health assessment turnaround time: median time (in minutes) from referral by an ED clinician to the mental health team to assessment by a mental health worker, during the 6 month time period.

• Paediatric patient management: mean time (in minutes) from time of arrival to time of first antibiotic administration in infants less than 28 days of age with a primary discharge diagnosis of sepsis, during the 6 month time period.

• Paediatric patient management: percentage of paediatric patients who presented to the ED with asthma and received salbutamol therapy within 30 minutes of arrival, during the 6 month time period.

• Pain management: percentage of adult patients who presented to the ED with abdominal or limb pain and have a documented initial pain assessment score, during the 6 month time period.

• Pain management: percentage of adult patients who presented to the ED with abdominal or limb pain and have a documented pain reassessment score, during the 6 month time period.

• Pain management: percentage of adult patients who presented to the ED with abdominal or limb pain and received analgesic therapy within 30 minutes of presentation, during the 6 month time period.

• Pain management: percentage of paediatric patients who presented to the ED with a primary diagnosis of limb fracture and received analgesic therapy within 30 minutes of presentation, during the 6 month time period.

• Patients who did not wait: percentage of patients presenting to the ED who did not wait after having clinical information documented about their presenting complaint, during the 6 month time period.

• Patients who did not wait: percentage of patients presenting to the ED with a mental health complaint who did not wait after having clinical information documented about their presenting complaint, during the 6 month time period.

• Waiting time: percentage of patients attending the ED allocated to Australasian Triage Scale (ATS) Category 1 who are attended to immediately, during the 6 month time period. This updates a previously published measure summary.

• Waiting time: percentage of patients attending the ED allocated to Australasian Triage Scale (ATS) Category 2 who are attended to within 10 minutes, during the 6 month time period. This updates a previously published measure summary.

• Waiting time: percentage of patients attending the ED allocated to Australasian Triage Scale (ATS) Category 3 who are attended to within 30 minutes, during the 6 month time period. This updates a previously published measure summary.

• Waiting time: percentage of patients attending the ED allocated to Australasian Triage Scale (ATS) Category 4 who are attended to within 60 minutes, during the 6 month time period. This updates a previously published measure summary.

• Waiting time: percentage of patients attending the ED allocated to Australasian Triage Scale (ATS) Category 5 who are attended to within 120 minutes, during the 6 month time period. This updates a previously published measure summary.