Urgent care clinical quality indicators

Our urgent care clinical quality indicators include the following specialties and metrics:

  • Acute medicine
    • Assessment of venous thromboembolism risk
    • Early warning score
  • Cardiology
    • Heart attack prevention
    • Heart failure
    • Primary coronary angioplasty
  • Critical care
    • Catheter-related blood stream infections in critical care
    • Re-admission to intensive care
  • Emergency department (A&E)
    • Time spent in the emergency department
  • Medicine for the elderly
    • Dementia
    • Pressure ulcers in elderly patients
    • Re-admission rates in elderly patients
  • Neurology and stroke medicine
    • Rehabilitation referrals
    • Rehabilitation outcomes (NRC)
    • Rehabilitation outcomes (SAM)
    • Community assessments in patients with neurological conditions 
    • Stroke
  • Respiratory medicine
    • Re-admission in patients with COPD
    • Specialist respiratory care
    • Tuberculosis