Union Hospital’s performance against the Australian Council on Healthcare Standards (ACHS) Clinical Indicators is described below:
56 Clinical Indicators have been collected in the 1st half of 2024. There are 26 Indicators performed statistically significantly better than the International Peer Aggregate Rate:
Set | Clinical Indicator No. | Indicator Name | Union Hospital's Rate | International Peer Aggregate Rate |
---|---|---|---|---|
Anaesthesia and Perioperative Care | CI 3.5 | Unplanned stay in recovery room >2 hours |
0.000% ![]() |
1.525% |
Anaesthesia and Perioperative Care | CI 4.1 | Unplanned intensive care unit admission within 24 hours after procedure |
0.034% ![]() |
0.159% |
Emergency Medicine | CI 1.2 | Australasian Triage Scale Category 2 - medically assessed and treated within 10 minutes |
100.000% ![]() |
70.710% |
Emergency Medicine | CI 1.3 | Australasian Triage Scale Category 3 - medically assessed and treated within 30 minutes |
96.013% ![]() |
65.928% |
Emergency Medicine | CI 1.4 | Australasian Triage Scale Category 4 - medically assessed and treated within 60 minutes |
68.654% ![]() |
72.008% |
Emergency Medicine | CI 1.5 | Australasian Triage Scale Category 5 - medically assessed and treated within 120 minutes |
99.557% ![]() |
87.425% |
Gastrointestinal Endoscopy | CI 1.1 | Failure to reach caecum / neo-terminal ileum due to inadequate bowel preparation |
0.025% ![]() |
0.300% |
Gastrointestinal Endoscopy | CI 3.1 | Adenoma detection rate |
43.053% ![]() |
31.500% |
Gynaecology | CI 2.1 | Injury to a major viscus during endoscopic surgery |
0.000% ![]() |
0.519% |
Hospital-Wide | CI 2.1 | Unplanned return to the operating room during the same admission |
0.045% ![]() |
0.228% |
Hospital-Wide | CI 3.1 | Inpatients who develop 1 or more pressure injuries |
0.000% ![]() |
0.023% |
Hospital-Wide | CI 4.1 | Inpatient falls |
0.024% ![]() |
0.260% |
Hospital-Wide | CI 4.2 | Inpatient falls resulting in fracture or closed head injury |
0.001% ![]() |
0.008% |
Hospital-Wide | CI 5.2 | Deaths in adult patients who do not have a resuscitation plan |
0.021% ![]() |
0.162% |
Infection Control | CI 6.1 | Reported parenteral exposures sustained by staff |
0.007% ![]() |
0.025% |
Infection Control | CI 6.2 | Reported non-parenteral exposures sustained by staff |
0.000% ![]() |
0.008% |
Intensive Care | CI 1.4 | Adult discharge delay more than 12 hours |
0.000% ![]() |
22.707% |
Intensive Care | CI 3.1 | Venous thromboembolism prophylaxis in adult patients within 24 hours of intensive care unit admission |
100.000% ![]() |
92.850% |
Intensive Care | CI 1.3 | Adult transfer to another facility or intensive care unit due to unavailability of bed |
1.852% ![]() |
0.571% |
Maternity | CI 7.1 | Term neonates - Apgar score less than 7 at 5 minutes post-delivery |
0.000% ![]() |
1.147% |
Maternity | CI 8.1 | Admissions of term neonate to a neonatal intensive care nursery or special care nursery at birth whose length of stay exceeds 24 hours |
0.778% ![]() |
6.762% |
Medication Safety | CI 6.3 | Medication errors - adverse event requiring intervention |
0.000% ![]() |
0.010% |
Oral Health | CI 1.1 | Restorative treatment - teeth retreated within 6 months |
0.559% ![]() |
4.157% |
Pathology | CI 1.1 | Serum / plasma potassium for emergency department - receipt in lab to validated time <40 minutes |
97.561% ![]() |
56.863% |
Pathology | CI 2.1 | Haemoglobin for emergency department - receipt in lab to validated time <35 minutes |
100.000% ![]() |
87.742% |
Pathology | CI 3.1 | Anatomic Pathology complexity level 4 Medicare Benefits Schedule item - received to validated time <4 working days |
94.643% ![]() |
85.280% |
Pathology | CI 6.1 | Misidentified episodes |
0.017% ![]() |
0.370% |
Radiology | CI 1.5 | Contrast extravasation during an intravenous contrast enhanced CT procedure requiring specialist review |
0.000% ![]() |
11.400% |