Patient safety
Most Canadians who access health services receive safe care. However, sometimes there are adverse effects from receiving care — unintended harm associated with the delivery of care that can result in a prolonged hospital stay, disability or death.
CIHI provides timely and comparable data and information to guide decisions on patient safety and the provision of safe care. Our work includes a number of initiatives, such as the development and reporting of indicators across the continuum of care and quality and patient safety analyses. Explore information on patient safety, including indicators, data tables, reports and other key resources.
Featured material
Hospital Harm Project
Learn more about a patient safety measure of potentially preventable hospital harm in Canada, and how it is linked to evidence-informed practices.
Equity and patient safety: An analysis of hospital harm
This analysis examines equity in patient safety through stratification of CIHI’s Hospital Harm indicator.
Demonstrating linked PREMs, PROMs, clinical and costing data
This report highlights the feasibility of linking health care data collected from multiple sources at CIHI to facilitate the assessment of overall health system performance.
Unintended harms: How CIHI is helping Canadians receive safer care
Health systems across the country continuously strive to make Canadian health care safer. Learn how we help these efforts through an interview with Yana Gurevich, manager of Health Indicators and Client Support, and Mélanie Josée Davidson, director of Health System Performance.
Hospital Harm in Canada — Kate Parson, Linda Silas, Kathleen Finlay and Annette Elliott Rose
In this episode of the CHIP, we discuss hospital harm and the overwhelming workload of health care workers across Canada.
Hospital staffing and hospital harm trends throughout the pandemic
Hospital health workers’ rates of sick time and overtime peaked during the pandemic. CIHI offers a glimpse of how hospital workers and patients fared during the COVID-19 crisis.
Indicators
Reports and releases
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