National Quality Measures Clearinghouse | Australian Council on Healthcare Standards | Access block & Acute myocardial infarction (AMI)

Australian Council on Healthcare Standards


Access block: percentage of mental health or critical care patients who waited greater than 4 hours in the emergency department (ED) after the time of decision to admit them, during the 6 month time period. This updates a previously published measure summary.

National Quality Measures Clearinghouse | Access block: percentage of mental health or critical care patients who waited greater than 4 hours in the emergency department (ED) after the time of decision to admit them, during the 6 month time period.

Access block: percentage of patients who were admitted or planned for admission but discharged from the emergency department (ED) 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.

National Quality Measures Clearinghouse | Access block: percentage of patients who were admitted or planned for admission but discharged from the emergency department (ED) 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.

Acute myocardial infarction (AMI): percentage of patients with an AMI requiring thrombolysis who receive thrombolytic therapy within 1 hour of presentation to the emergency department, as their primary treatment, during the 6 month time period. This updates a previously published measure summary.

National Quality Measures Clearinghouse | Acute myocardial infarction (AMI): percentage of patients with an AMI requiring thrombolysis who receive thrombolytic therapy within 1 hour of presentation to the emergency department, as their primary treatment, during the 6 month time period.

Acute myocardial infarction (AMI): percentage of patients with an AMI who receive PTCA as their primary treatment and have balloon inflation within 1 hour of presentation to the emergency department, during the 6 month time period. This updates a previously published measure summary.

National Quality Measures Clearinghouse | Acute myocardial infarction (AMI): percentage of patients with an AMI who receive PTCA as their primary treatment and have balloon inflation within 1 hour of presentation to the emergency department, during the 6 month time period.