Researchers, faculty and students in post-secondary institutions have a new way to access data resources, including acute inpatient data held in CIHI’s Discharge Abstract Database (DAD).

The DAD captures administrative, clinical and demographic information on hospital discharges (including deaths, sign-outs and transfers). The access point for this data: Statistics Canada’s Data Liberation Initiative. For more details, send an email to dli-idd@statcan.gc.ca.

Updated hospital performance data is now available in the CHRP web tool. With 21 clinical indicators and 6 financial indicators, CHRP data allows hospitals to

• compare their performance against that of their peers and
• learn from leading practices

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CIHI wants your feedback on the new Performance Measurement Framework for the Canadian Health System that is being proposed. Its goal: to understand and improve health system performance.

The new measurement framework provides a common approach for jurisdictions to measure health system performance. It looks at various connections among and inputs to the health system, including patient demographics; political, economic and cultural context; and leadership and allocation of resources.

Find out more, and give us your feedback on the performance measurement framework by sending an email to hsp@cihi.ca.

This tool estimates the average cost of services in hospitals. Updates include 2010 data and the 2012 version of the patient grouping methodology applied to inpatient services. You’ll also find

• More jurisdictions
• More commonly used health terms to make it easier to search
• Two years of cost estimates

Try the Patient Cost Estimator...

Senior citizens are five times more likely to be hospitalized for adverse drug reactions than other Canadians. Among seniors, hospitalizations occurred most frequently for adverse reactions to

• Blood thinners
• Chemotherapy drugs
• Opioid pain killers

Find out more in the report...

Inpatient hospital mental health services data from the Hospital Mental Health Database (HMHDB) is now available for 2010–2011.

Quick Stats provide indicators on hospital services for individuals diagnosed with mental illness.

Performance indicators are presented by age, gender and diagnosis at the national, provincial/territorial and regional levels. Supporting HMHDB documents are available too. Find out more...