Regular cycle products

Annual reports, indicators, tools and releases

In addition to the new projects listed in this plan, CIHI publicly releases updates of the following reports and indicators. 

 

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 takes place in April. The CMG+ Directory tool, which outlines grouper logic and assignment to a CMG cell, is updated with the change cycle for the Discharge Abstract Database.
    • Comprehensive Ambulatory Classification System (CACS) — 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 takes place in April and includes the CACS 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 helps to predict person-level health care costs and use of selected health system resources (i.e., primary care, emergency department, long-term care, inpatient service) for both the current period and 1 year into the future. Version 1.4 of the POP Grouper was released in July 2023.
    • For more information on the suite of case-mix indicators and tools, see Case-mix indicators and tools or 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).
  • Measuring Health Inequalities: A Toolkit — Resources to help analysts and researchers measure and report on health inequalities. 
  • 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 countries in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), including Canada. It can be used to do comparative analyses and draw lessons from international comparisons of diverse health systems.
  • Wait times for priority procedures in Canada — Provides 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 — An interactive web tool 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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