Access and wait times: Indicators

This indicator provides the number of emergency department (ED) visits and median length of stay (in minutes) for asthma. The length of stay is the time elapsed from the patient's registration to the time he or she physically leaves the ED.

This indicator provides the percentage of long-stay home care clients whose unpaid caregivers experience distress in a 1-year period.

This indicator provides the average number of days that clients wait between the Date Ready for Admission to a rehabilitation program and the actual date of admission.

​​This indicator provides the percentage of Canadians who die at home or in the community each year.

This document summarizes the Early Intervention indicator’s methodology, results, caveats and other identifying information. Higher is better. The higher the result, the higher the number of individuals with early needs who accessed community-based…

This indicator measures the time between the Disposition Date/Time and the Date/Time Patient Left Emergency Department (ED) for admission to an inpatient bed or operating room.

This indicator measures the time interval between the earlier of triage date/time or registration date/time and the date/time of physician initial assessment in the emergency department (ED). The 90th or 50th percentile of this indicator represents the…

This indicator gives the percentage of individuals who had 4 or more emergency room (ER) or urgent care centre (UCC) visits for help with mental health and substance use in a given year.

This indicator provides the percentage of the population that reported having a regular health care provider, including a family doctor or general practitioner, a medical specialist or a nurse practitioner. Higher percentages are desirable.

This indicator calculates the risk-adjusted proportion of hip fractures surgically treated within 48 hours of a patient’s initial admission to an acute care hospital, among patients age 18 and older.