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Annual reports, indicators, tools and data releases

In addition to the new projects listed in this plan, CIHI also publicly releases updates of the following reports and indicators on a yearly or other regular basis.

Types of care

Health system performance

  • Case-mix indicators and tools
    • Case Mix Group+ (CMG+) — Aggregates acute care inpatients with similar clinical and resource utilization characteristics into clinically meaningful groups and predicts their associated Resource Intensity Weight (RIW) and Expected Length of Stay (ELOS). Annual release of the updated methodology in April includes a Directory tool that outlines grouper logic and assignment to a CMG cell, and client tables that provide common case-mix information in a format that can be used for analysis. 
    • Comprehensive Ambulatory Classification System (CACS) — Grouping methodology that aggregates day surgery, emergency department and hospital clinic visits into groups that are clinically and resource homogenous and predicts their associated RIW. Annual release of the updated methodology in April includes a Directory tool and client tables.
    • Population Grouping Methodology (POP Grouper) — Builds clinical and demographic profiles for each person in the population using data on hospital, ambulatory, residential, physician and home care. Using these profiles, the POP Grouper predicts person-level health care costs and use of selected health system resources (i.e., primary care, emergency department, long-term care) for both the current period and 1 year into the future.
    • For more information on the suite of case-mix indicators and tools, please email casemix@cihi.ca.
  • Equity Stratifier Inventory (XLSX) — Shows the availability of embedded and area-level equity stratifiers in selected CIHI and Statistics Canada health data (updated December 2022).
  • Health Indicators e-Publication — A large inventory of health indicators for regions, provinces and territories measuring the health of Canadians and the performance of health systems, jointly produced by Statistics Canada and CIHI
  • OECD Health Database — Canadian Segment: A comprehensive source of comparable statistics on health and health systems across OECD countries, including Canada. It can be used for comparative analyses and drawing lessons from international comparisons of diverse health systems.
  • Wait times for priority procedures across Canada: The annual Wait times for priority procedures in Canada update will also provide interactive visualizations exploring how long patients wait for a priority procedure and the proportion of patients who receive care within benchmarks for hip and knee replacements, hip fracture repair, cataract surgery, coronary artery bypass graft, radiation therapy, MRI scans and CT scans.
  • Your Health System: In Brief and In Depth — Interactive web tools providing comparable health system indicators for health regions and for acute care and long-term care facilities.

Health workforce and spending

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