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Acute care

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Acute care for inpatients in hospital refers to necessary treatment for a disease or severe episode of illness provided for a short period of time. CIHI provides valuable insight on the quality of care, patient experiences, cost, volumes and types of acute care cases admitted to Canadian hospitals. CIHI also facilitates the collection of standardized information on acute care through databases such as the Discharge Abstract Database (DAD) and the Hospital Morbidity Database (HMDB). 

Explore information on acute care. Browse indicators, data tables, reports and other key resources. For information on emergency department and ambulatory care, go to our Emergency and ambulatory care topic page.

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Frailty among hospitalized seniors

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  • November 30, 2023
Explore information and data related to the CIHI Hospital Frailty Risk Measure, an acute care contextual measure developed to characterize the risk of frailty among seniors.

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Acute care: Reports and releases

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This page lists acute care reports, stories, infographics and release summaries.

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COPD: A focus on high users — Infographic

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An infographic depicting the characteristics and health care use of COPD high users in Alberta while highlighting regional variations across Alberta’s health zones.

COVID-19 hospitalization and emergency department statistics

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​​Explore the most recent information on hospitalizations and emergency department visits for patients with a diagnosis of COVID-19, including volumes, patient demographics and other key factors.

COVID-19’s impact on hospital services

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Discover how hospital care was affected during the COVID-19 pandemic, including cancelled surgeries, hospital admissions, ICU admissions and ventilation needs.

Acute care: Data tables

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This page lists data tables that provide information about acute care.

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Hospital Harm Results, 2014–2015 to 2022–2023 (XLSX)

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​The Hospital Harm indicator captures occurrences of unintended harm during a hospital stay that could have been potentially prevented by implementing known best practices. The indicator includes 31 clinical groups that fall under 4 categories of harm:…

Acute care: Indicators

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This page lists CIHI’s indicators on acute care.

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Hospitalizations Entirely Caused by Alcohol

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This indicator provides the age-standardized rate of hospitalizations with conditions that are wholly (100%) attributable to alcohol, per 100,000 population age 10 and older.

Hysterectomy Rate

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This indicator measures the age-standardized rate of hysterectomy provided to patients in acute care hospitals or same-day surgery facilities, per 100,000 women age 18 and older.

In-Hospital Sepsis

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This indicator calculates the risk-adjusted rate of in-hospital sepsis per 1,000 discharges.

Inflow/Outflow Ratio

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This indicator is a ratio, calculated as the number of separations (discharges and deaths) from acute care/same-day surgery facilities within a given region divided by the number of acute care/same-day surgery separations generated by residents of that…

Injury Hospitalization

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This indicator measures the age-standardized rate of acute care hospitalizations due to injury resulting from the transfer of energy, per 100,000 population.

Involvement in Decision-Making and Treatment Options

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​This measure describes whether patients and family/friends were involved in care decisions. Results show the percentage of patients who responded most favourably in the CPES-IC survey.

Acute care: Tools

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This page lists CIHI’s performance reporting tools that contain acute care data.

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Acute care: Data holdings

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This page contains information about CIHI’s data holdings related to acute care.

Discharge Abstract Database

The Discharge Abstract Database (DAD) contains demographic, administrative and clinical data on inpatient hospital discharges. Facilities in all provinces and territories except Quebec are required to report to the DAD. Quebec acute inpatient records are submitted to CIHI through a different process and are included in the Hospital Morbidity Database.

Hospital Morbidity Database

The Hospital Morbidity Database (HMDB) is a national data holding that captures administrative, clinical and demographic information on hospital inpatient events. It contains inpatient data collected via the DAD and inpatient records submitted from Quebec. Please note that Quebec day surgery records are part of the HMDB population as of 2012–2013.

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Acute care: News and podcasts

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This page contains media releases, bulletins and podcast episodes about acute care.

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Acute care: Education resources

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Through our Learning Centre, CIHI provides opportunities for health professionals to understand our evolving reporting systems and the application of our standards, data and analytics. We offer many courses and resources for a variety of audiences, including clinicians, assessors, data submitters and analysts, decision-makers, policy planners and researchers.

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Population Grouping Methodology in Action (PDF)

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​​This information sheet highlights the main applications of CIHI’s population grouping methodology using chronic health conditions as an example.

Predicting Risk of Hospitalization for COVID-19 (PDF)

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This information sheet outlines a new model to help identify those at the highest risk of hospitalization for severe respiratory illnesses (e.g., pneumonia) and COVID-19.

Understand everyone's role

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interRAI, CIHI, your software vendor and your organization all have roles and responsibilities when it comes to choosing a vendor