Acute care: Reports and releases

PowerPoint presentation on methodologies for estimating occupancy of constrained resources and case study previews of data.

This report outlines a new methodology that uses administrative data to estimate physical resources and that is tested on the operating room setting.

Open-year data quality tests performed on the DAD in 2014–2015, along with the rules, selection criteria and data elements used.

The Hospital Standardized Mortality Ratio (HSMR) is a measure to improve patient safety and the quality of care in Canadian hospitals.

Information on the quality of the data file for the relevant fiscal year.

An examination of different indicators used to assess the level of health care utilization of different groups of patients.

An estimation of the increased mortality on weekends for heart attack and stroke patients due to reduced services, and an estimation of delays in services.

Examines the state of bariatric surgery in Canada.

This study measures health system efficiency in Canada to gain insight into factors that help explain variations in efficiency at the health region level. 

Comparing countries in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development using selected health care indicators, including disease prevalence, mortality and risk factors, quality of care, access to care and costs.