Emergency and ambulatory care

Emergency and ambulatory care is one of the largest-volume patient activities in the country, making it a key component of the continuum of health services in Canada. CIHI maintains several databases to provide stakeholders with insight on visit volumes, patient demographics, clinical and service-specific data related to emergency departments, day surgery and outpatient and community-based clinics. These databases include the National Ambulatory Care Reporting System (NACRS), the Discharge Abstract Database (DAD) and the Hospital Morbidity Database (HMDB).

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