Acute care: Indicators

This indicator measures the median number of days patients spend in an inpatient acute care hospital bed when they don’t need acute care before they are discharged to home care.

This indicator calculates the age-standardized rate of hospital stays for harm caused by substance use per 100,000 population age 10 and older.

This indicator provides the age-standardized rate of hospitalizations with conditions that are wholly (100%) attributable to alcohol, per 100,000 population age 10 and older.

This indicator measures the age-standardized rate of hysterectomy provided to patients in acute care hospitals or same-day surgery facilities, per 100,000 women age 18 and older.

The percentage of organ transplant recipients who die during the hospital stay in which they receive their transplant

This indicator calculates the risk-adjusted rate of in-hospital sepsis per 1,000 discharges.

This indicator provides the number of all incident patients (new patients) with end-stage kidney disease (ESKD) who began renal replacement therapy (RRT) for the first time in the calendar year.

This indicator gives the breakdown, by primary diagnosis, of all patients with end-stage kidney disease (ESKD) who began renal replacement therapy (RRT) for the first time in the calendar year.

This indicator is a ratio, calculated as the number of separations (discharges and deaths) from acute care/same-day surgery facilities within a given region divided by the number of acute care/same-day surgery separations generated by residents of that…

​This measure describes whether patients had enough information when leaving hospital. Results show the percentage of patients who responded most favourably in the CPES-IC survey.