Patient safety: Reports and releases

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

Jenna is a young adult with a complicated medical history compounded by the absence of a consistent family doctor. Without a GP, she has had to navigate a complex medical system on her own.

Learn more about a patient safety measure of potentially preventable hospital harm in Canada, and how it is linked to evidence-informed practices.

This infographic describes the Hospital Harm indicator, which captures occurrences of unintended harm during a hospital stay that could have been potentially prevented.

This analysis examines equity in patient safety through stratification of CIHI’s Hospital Harm indicator.

Explores rates of hospital harm across Canada and reinforces the importance of equity stratification to improve patient safety in hospitals.

This report discusses the measure of potentially preventable harm in hospitals and provides an overview of the status of these patient safety events in Canada.

This report introduces the work undertaken to develop a new measure of hospital harm that is linked to evidence-informed practices.

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.

Explore information on selected interventions (policies and other measures) across Canada to stop the spread of and improve health outcomes related to COVID-19 (coronavirus disease).