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Efficiency

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Improving health system performance and getting better value for the money spent on health care continue to dominate the health policy landscape. As health system decision-makers face the challenge of providing timely and effective care within the confines of a fixed budget, key questions emerge: What makes a health system efficient? How can efficiency be measured? Why does efficiency vary across Canada? What actions are decision-makers taking to improve efficiency and what are the associated challenges?

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Hospital spending

  • Release summary
  • October 31, 2024
Take an in-depth look at hospital spending in Canada and discover emerging trends using data from the Canadian MIS Database (CMDB).

Overuse of tests and treatments in Canada

  • Release summary
  • November 10, 2022
​Expanding on our 2017 report, this follow-up from CIHI and Choosing Wisely Canada examines progress on overuse of 12 tests and treatments and provides insights for continued improvements.

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Efficiency: Reports and releases

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This page lists efficiency of care reports, stories, infographics and release summaries.

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Connected care

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Connected Care offers a future where patients don’t need to repeat their medical history or prescriptions to every health care provider they visit.

Hospital spending

  • Release summary
  • Published
Take an in-depth look at hospital spending in Canada and discover emerging trends using data from the Canadian MIS Database (CMDB).

Access to care remains challenging

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This infographic highlights how Canada compares with 9 other countries on access to care in the 2022 Commonwealth Fund survey of primary care physicians.

Commonwealth Fund survey, 2022

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​The 2022 Commonwealth Fund survey polled family doctors in Canada and 9 other developed countries and provides insight into the current gaps and improvements in primary care.

Overuse of tests and treatments in Canada

  • Release summary
  • Published
​Expanding on our 2017 report, this follow-up from CIHI and Choosing Wisely Canada examines progress on overuse of 12 tests and treatments and provides insights for continued improvements.

Celebrating the success of CCQI reporting

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Collaboration between CIHI and CCS on the CCQI initiative has contributed to monitoring of and improvements in key areas related to cardiac care interventions across Canada.

Efficiency: Data tables

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This page lists data tables that provide information about the efficiency of care.

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Hospital Beds Staffed and In Operation, 2022–2023

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These figures represent the beds and cribs available and staffed to provide services to inpatients at the required type and level of service during or at the beginning of the fiscal year.

Hospital Beds Staffed and In Operation, 2021–2022 (XLSX)

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These figures represent the beds and cribs available and staffed to provide services to inpatients at the required type and level of service during or at the beginning of the fiscal year.

Hospital Beds Staffed and In Operation, 2020–2021 (XLSX)

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​​These figures represent the beds and cribs available and staffed to provide services to inpatients at the required type and level of service during or at the beginning of the fiscal year.

Efficiency: Indicators

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This page lists CIHI’s indicators on efficiency.

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Caregiver Distress

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

Death at Home or in Community

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

Hip Fracture Surgery Within 48 Hours

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This indicator calculates the 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.

Efficiency: Tools

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This page lists CIHI’s performance reporting tools that contain efficiency data.

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NACRS Clinic Lite

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Canadian ambulatory clinics can use NACRS Clinic Lite for low-cost data collection and data reporting.

Efficiency: Data holdings

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This page contains information about CIHI’s data holdings related to efficiency.

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Efficiency: News and podcasts

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This page contains media releases, bulletins and podcast episodes about the efficiency of care.

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Going the Distance

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A mother and her seriously ill son travel from Nunavut to Ottawa to a special clinic set up to meet the needs of Inuit families accessing medical care.

Dr. Manners: Operating Room Etiquette

  • Podcast episode
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Listen as Avis Favaro speaks with UHN’s Dr. Carol-Anne Moulton about designing systems to promote teamwork and open communication in the operating room.

Fixing Family Medicine — Dr. Jane Philpott and Dr. Tara Kiran

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With an exodus of family doctors, 1 in 5 Canadians do not have direct access to primary care. Listen as host Avis Favaro speaks with Dr. Jane Philpott and Dr. Tara Kiran, who say they know how to turn this around — and that every Canadian has the right…

Efficiency: Education resources

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Through our Learning Centre, CIHI provides opportunities for health professionals to understand our evolving reporting systems and the application of our standards, data and analytics. We offer many courses and resources for a variety of audiences, including clinicians, assessors, data submitters and analysts, decision-makers, policy planners and researchers.

Courses and resources are available in a variety of formats, including eLearning modules, PDF and page-based documents, live and recorded web conferences, and videos.

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Resources offered through CIHI include the following:

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Connected care — Video (Video)

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This video explains what connected care is, how it will improve Canadians’ experiences with their health system and how CIHI is working with stakeholders to make this vision a reality.

Management Information System Standards

  • Database manual
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National standards for financial and statistical data of health service organizations reported to the Canadian MIS Database by ministries of health.

Canadian MIS Database (CMDB) User Guide (PDF)

  • User guide
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​The CMDB User Guide provides information on the composition, processing and use of data from the Canadian Management Information System (MIS) Database (CMDB).

Seniors transitioning from home care to residential care

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This video can help us better understand how Canada’s seniors transition from living independently to receiving continuing care services, and what factors influence their transition into residential care. 

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