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System Performance

Measuring System Performance

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Measuring and publicly reporting on the health of Ontario's health system is informed by many components developed by Health Quality Ontario along with its data partners, and other system stakeholders. This section will give you an overview of the factors that go into how, what, when, why, and with whom we gather, measure and report on data.


Hospital Sector Indicator Reduction and Management Strategy

A joint report with the Ontario Hospital Association on streamlining excessive performance measurement to prioritize what matters

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Quality Indicators for Community Pharmacy

A report on quality indicators for community pharmacy and the expert panel process to select these indicators

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Measuring Regional Variation in Health System Performance

A technical review of measurement methods to improve the reporting of regional variation in health system performance

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The Common Quality Agenda

A set of indicators to measure health quality in Ontario

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Monitoring What Matters

Our approach to measuring and reporting on the performance of Ontario’s health system

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How Indicators are Selected

Which criteria and process are used to decide which quality indicators are measured and reported

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Measuring Patient Experience

This Ontario Patient Experience Measurement Strategy is the first provincial, multi-sector initiative of its kind

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Indicator Library

Technical information on quality indicators; searchable and comparable data

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Patients, families and the public are central to improving health quality.


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