Emergency and ambulatory care: News and podcasts

​This bulletin describes how Ontario clients can access regrouped historical acute inpatient and ambulatory care data from the Discharge Abstract Database (DAD) and National Ambulatory Care Reporting System (NACRS).

This bulletin describes how clients can access regrouped historical acute inpatient and ambulatory care data from the Discharge Abstract Database (DAD) and National Ambulatory Care Reporting System (NACRS).

In this episode of the CHIP, we are joined by Dr. Elyse Pelletier, an emergency physician, and David Gagnon, a paramedic, to discuss the ongoing crisis gripping emergency departments across the country, the impact on workers and patients, and what’s…

In this episode of the CHIP, we are joined by Dr. Fraser Mackay, an emergency physician, and David Leary, a veteran paramedic, to discuss the ongoing crisis gripping emergency departments across the country, the impact on workers and patients, and what’s…

In this episode of the CHIP, guest host Jeanie Lacroix speaks with Dr. Marcel Émond, certified emergency physician at the level-1 trauma centre of the CHU de Québec — Hôpital de l’Enfant-Jésus, about the risks of frailty.

On this episode of the CHIP, host Avis Favaro speaks with Dr. Kenneth Rockwood, clinical research professor of frailty and aging at Dalhousie University, about the risks of frailty.

This media release looks at rates of hospitalizations and emergency department visits due to substance use for children and youth.

In this episode of the CHIP, we discuss hospital harm and the overwhelming workload of health care workers across Canada.

​Hospitalizations due to COVID-19 increased by 19% in 2022–2023, while emergency department (ED) visits due to the virus decreased in the same time period, according to the latest data released by the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI).

In this episode of the CHIP, host Alya Niang speaks with McGill University professor Bernard Lapointe and documentary filmmaker Philippe Miquel about the state of palliative care in Canada and why it is such a critical part of health care.