Indicator library

This list provides definitions and methodologies for more than 100 CIHI indicators, ranging from acute care, continuing care and rehabilitation to finance, spending and health human resources.
 
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Self-Harm Hospitalizations

This indicator provides the rate of hospitalizations due to self-harm. Lower rates are desirable as they signal less frequent severe self-harm.

Self-Harm, Including Suicide

This indicator provides the rate of self-harm hospitalizations and self-harm deaths (suicides). Lower rates are desirable as they signal less frequent severe self-harm.

Seniors (65 and Older)

Canadians Age 65 and Older, Proportion of Total Population (Percentage)

Small for Gestational Age Rate

This indicator provides the crude rate for small-for-gestational-age (SGA) births.

Smoking

This indicator provides the percentage of the population age 12 and older who reported being current cigarette smokers, on either a daily or occasional basis.

Surgical Patients Readmitted to Hospital

This indicator measures the risk-adjusted rate of urgent readmission for the surgical patient group.

Total Acute Care Resource Use Intensity

This measure provides the total overall relative cost weight for a hospital. The cost weights are derived from the types of cases that make up the hospital’s patient population and the services provided by the hospital. Patient age, number of…

Total Days Stayed for Mental Health and Substance Use Disorder Hospitalizations

​​Total days stayed, percentage of days stayed, average days stayed, 0.5% trimmed average, median, 25th and 75th percentiles, and crude and age-standardized rate of days stayed, for mental health and substance use disorder hospitalizations, by Canada and…

Total Time Spent in Emergency Department (Hours, Percentile)

This indicator measures the time interval between the earlier of triage date/time or registration date/time and the date/time when a patient leaves the emergency department (ED).

Transplants, by Organ Type

This indicator provides counts of each transplanted organ type based on data submitted to the Canadian Organ Replacement Register (CORR) by each organ procurement organization (OPO).

Wait Times for Bypass Surgery

This indicator provides the number of days between the date the patient and the appropriate physician agreed to a coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) and the patient was ready to receive it, and the date the patient received a planned CABG.

Wait Times for Cataract Surgery (Percentiles)

This indicator measures the number of days between the date the patient and the appropriate physician agreed to a cataract surgery and the patient was ready to receive it, and the date the patient received the surgery.

Wait Times for Community Mental Health Counselling

This indicator provides the median number of calendar days that clients waited for their first scheduled appointment for ongoing community mental health counselling services.

Wait Times for CT Scan

This indicator provides the number of days patients waited, from the date the order/requisition was received to the date that patients received a CT scan.
 

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