Resource use: Reports and releases

Cost of a Standard Hospital Stay (CSHS) is a key financial indicator. Observed variability in the CSHS is explored by considering such things as staff mix, teaching status and facility size.

A report comparing the characteristics and health care use of COPD high users and low/moderate users in Alberta.  It also highlights regional variations across Alberta’s health zones.

CIHI and Choosing Wisely Canada (CWC) are working together to report on patients receiving unnecessary tests and procedures every year in Canada, across 8 out of 200+ CWC recommendations.

Summary of a report on care in Canadian intensive care units and future health system challenges in Canada.

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.

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

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

The Cost of Hospital Stays: Why Costs Vary provides information about how certain factors can affect average costs of hospital stays for typical patients