The Australian Consortium for Aged Care Quality Indicator Repository
The Australian Consortium for Aged Care Quality (ACAC) Quality Indicator Repository (hereafter the ‘QI Repository’) was publicly released in March 2025. The QI Repository was designed to comprehensively capture the attributes of QIs used by international quality monitoring programs focusing on the care of older people, for use by individuals interested in quality measurement, often including researchers, aged and health care providers, government bodies and older people, their families and carers.
QIs are useful tools to measure, evaluate, monitor and compare the level of care and outcomes a system is delivering. QIs are foundational elements of quality improvement activities and are useful to inform improvements in service delivery and consequently, the outcomes experienced by those utilising the services.
The QI Repository currently includes the attributes of 1326 QIs identified from scoping reviews of quality indicator programs measuring care quality experienced by older people in eight key care settings; aged care (residential aged care and home care), palliative care, care transitions, dementia care, rural and remote care, rehabilitation care, primary care and hospital care.
