Patient safety: Reports and releases

Read this evaluation of NSIR-RT, which was pilot-tested by 28 cancer treatment centres. The report focuses on patient safety objectives, client support and the data quality of the RT incident pilot data.

Measuring Patient Harm in Canadian Hospitals

A summary of results from a reabstraction study on DAD data, providing an assessment of coding quality, with a particular focus on data used to measure patient safety.

Catalogue of patient safety information in CIHI's data holdings and publicly available products.

This chartbook profiles the results from a selected group of primary health care (PHC) indicators, using a range of data sources, with the aim of providing an integrated view of PHC information in Canada.

Study on the use of antipsychotics among seniors living in long-term care facilities, and on concurrent use with other psychotropic drugs.

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.

Follow-up with a physician after hospitalization, variation in follow-up rates and potential factors.

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.

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.