We are pleased to announce the addition of new metrics into our existing Victorian Cardiovascular Dashboard (VCD).
The new metrics are for:
- in-or-out hospital mortality within 30 days of first admission for selected cardiac and stroke conditions
- cardiac-related hospital acquired complications (HACs) indicators.
This latest release of dashboard measures will further support quality improvement in cardiovascular care with your health service.
About the Victorian Cardiovascular Dashboard (VCD)
The dashboard provides timely data on key quality and safety related cardiac and stroke metrics with risk-adjustment where appropriate. It aims to assist health services to continuously benchmark their performance against peer-grouped hospitals and statewide aggregated data.
When it was launched back in February 2024, the dashboard featured five readmission indicators. As a result of this update, the dashboard now includes 3 mortality and 6 disaggregated cardiac hospital acquired complications (HACs) indicators.
Health services are encouraged to use this tool to drive local improvements, collaborate with other healthcare providers, and facilitate the sharing and dissemination of best practices.
Dashboard audience
Intended audiences include:
- public healthcare clinicians
- senior executive and leadership teams
- quality, safety and improvement leaders and managers
- Safer Care Victoria (SCV)
- Department of Health (DH).
How to access the dashboard
Current users of the VAHI portal can access VCD by following these steps:
- Go to the VAHI website
- Login to the portal with your details.
- Navigate to the 'Reports' menu and select 'Victorian Cardiovascular Dashboard'.
If you don't currently have access and the VCD is relevant to your line of work, please contact portal.support@vahi.vic.gov.au for further support.
What next
Additional features including overall risk-adjustment and funnel plot analysis will be made available for cardiovascular-related HACs in the coming months.
If you have any suggestions for improvement or issues related to your login or access to the portal, please email portal.support@vahi.vic.gov.au
For any other queries, please reach out to us at cardiovascularlhn@safercare.vic.gov.au
Acknowledgement
This is a significant collaborative effort between eHealth’s Clinical Analytics and Reporting team, Cardiovascular Learning Health Network and its committee members. We would like to thank all stakeholders for their contributions.