Admissions per 100 HF patients and Admissions per 100 COPD patients measure the rate (per 100 cohort members) of inpatient admissions for people identified as being in the HF or COPD cohort, respectively. Hospitalizations for ACSCs measures the numeric rate (per 10,000) of hospitalizations for health conditions that may have been prevented or managed by appropriate primary health care.
One way to improve the quality of health care for people with HF, COPD, or other ACSCs is by providing appropriate, high-quality preventative services in the community and/or primary care setting. These indicators help track the outcome of services that people do or do not receive. Although there can be several factors outside the direct control of the health care system that result in hospitalization, this data can be used to provide insight on past performance, or to help identify where there are unmet community health care needs that would benefit from improvement interventions.
Approximately 1 in 4 adults over the age of 30 will be living with a major illness in 2040, requiring significant hospital care; this is an increase from approximately 1 in 8 individuals in 2002.1 These increases may disproportionately impact the individuals who are most affected by the social determinants of health.
The planning and programming of chronic disease prevention and management continue to evolve in alignment with Ontario Health priorities and needs within the sector. Key areas of focus will be for OHTs to implement chronic disease prevention and management models rooted in primary care and community care settings within OHTs, targeting patients with many risk factors and/or with chronic and complex conditions, to ensure strong connections between upstream and downstream elements of the pathway.
Key Resources
1Rosella LC, Buajitti E, Daniel I, Alexander M, Brown A. Projected patterns of illness in Ontario [Internet]. Toronto: Dalla Lana School of Public Health; 2024 [cited 11 Nov 2024]. Available from: https://www.oha.com/Documents/externalresources/Projected%20patterns%20of%20illness%20in%20Ontario.pdf