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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Wait times for priority procedures in Canada, 2024

Release summary
April 4, 2024

Explore recent trends in volumes and wait times for hip and knee replacements, cataract and cancer surgeries, and diagnostic imaging at national and provincial levels.

Frailty among hospitalized seniors

Release summary
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.

Impact of COVID-19 on patient experience in acute care hospitals

Report
February 24, 2022

This report summarizes key findings on patient experience during the COVID-19 pandemic derived from CIHI’s Canadian Patient Experiences Survey on Inpatient Care (CPES-IC).

Indicators

Living Donor Length of Stay

Indicator
April 23, 2024

Median Time From Organ Transplantation to Hospital Discharge

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April 23, 2024

In-Hospital Mortality Following Organ Transplantation

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April 23, 2024

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Reports and releases

Hospital data sheds light on patients experiencing homelessness

Report
April 25, 2024

Organ donation and transplantation data and reporting

Report
April 23, 2024

A Step Toward Understanding Health Care Trajectories of People Living With Dementia (PDF)

Report
April 11, 2024

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Acute care: Reports and releases

Acute care: Reports and releases kathschach Fri, 10/07/2022 - 16:01

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

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Discharge Abstract Database Open-Year Data Quality Test Specifications, 2019–2020 (PDF)

Report
Published August 15, 2019

Open-year data quality tests performed on DAD in 2019–2020, including the test specifications, selection criteria and data elements used.

Discharge Abstract Database Open-Year Data Quality Test Specifications, 2020–2021 (PDF)

Report
Published February 25, 2021

Open-year data quality tests performed on DAD in 2020–2021, including the test specifications, selection criteria and data elements used.

Discharge Abstract Database Open-Year Data Quality Test Specifications, 2023–2024 (PDF)

Report
Published February 14, 2024

Open-year data quality tests performed on the DAD, including the test specifications, selection criteria and data elements used. This document was created to accompany the DAD Open-Year Data Quality reports.

Discharge Abstract Database Re-abstraction Studies

Report
Published May 3, 2004

Evaluated quality of coding used to capture data from acute care hospitals submitted to the Discharge Abstract Database (DAD).

Early Identification of People at Risk of Hospitalization: Hospital Admission Risk Prediction (HARP) (PDF)

Report
Published September 12, 2013

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

Estimating Planned Surgical Cancellations Due to COVID-19 Using Historical Data — Summary (PDF)

Report
Published May 21, 2020

Key findings and limitations of estimates of surgery cancellations due to COVID-19 (coronavirus disease) derived by looking at planned inpatient and day surgeries between February 1 and April 30, 2019

Exploring Occupancy Through Administrative Data (PPTX)

Report
Published April 29, 2015

PowerPoint presentation on methodologies for estimating occupancy of constrained resources and case study previews of data.

Exploring Occupancy Through Administrative Data: A Test Case Using Operating Rooms (PDF)

Report
Published March 31, 2015

This report outlines a new methodology that uses administrative data to estimate physical resources and that is tested on the operating room setting.

Frailty among hospitalized seniors

Release summary
Published 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.

Health care use for children and youth with medical complexity in Canada — Infographic

Infographic
Published October 29, 2020

This infographic highlights the unique health care needs of children and youth with medical complexity in Canada, including hospital admissions, specialty clinics and medication use.

Acute care: Data tables

Acute care: Data tables kathschach Fri, 10/07/2022 - 16:14

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

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Inpatient Hospitalization, Surgery and Newborn Statistics, 2019–2020 (XLSX)

Data tables
Published April 29, 2021

These data tables contain information on hospitalization rates, in-hospital births and the top reasons for hospitalizations and surgeries from the DAD and HMDB databases.

Long-Term Care Beds in Canada — Data Table (XLSX)

Data tables
Published June 10, 2021

This data table provides information on the number of long-term care (LTC) homes and beds in Canada, and the number of LTC beds per 1,000 population age 65 and older.

Measuring Trends in Health Inequalities in Cities: Hospitalization and Day Surgery Indicator Results, by Census Subdivision — Data Tables (XLSX)

Data tables
Published October 8, 2019

Data tables for health inequalities for hospitalization rates for opioid poisonings, day surgery rates for dental caries in children, and hospitalization rates for COPD, by census subdivision.

Measuring Trends in Health Inequalities in Cities: Hospitalization and Day Surgery Indicator Results, Overall and by Census Metropolitan Area — Data Tables (XLSX)

Data tables
Published October 8, 2019

Data tables for health inequalities for hospitalization rates for opioid poisonings, day surgery rates for dental caries in children, and hospitalization rates for COPD, by census metropolitan area.

NACRS Emergency Department Visits and Length of Stay, 2017–2018 (XLSX)

Data tables
Published November 29, 2018

View data tables about emergency department visits and length of stay by province and territory for 2017–2018, based on data submitted to the National Ambulatory Care Reporting System.

National Health Expenditure Trends, 2023 — Open Data (XLSX)

Data tables
Published November 2, 2023

This health spending data from CIHI's National Health Expenditure Database (NHEX) is provided to facilitate your research and analysis.

National Health Expenditure Trends, 2023: Data Tables — Series D2 (XLSX)

Data tables
Published November 2, 2023

This series of data tables contains information on private-sector health expenditure, by use of funds and province/territory.

National Health Expenditure Trends, 2023: Data Tables — Series D3 (XLSX)

Data tables
Published November 2, 2023

This series of data tables contains information on public-sector health expenditure, by use of funds and province/territory.

National Health Expenditure Trends, 2023: Data Tables — Series D4 (XLSX)

Data tables
Published November 2, 2023

This series of data tables contains information on provincial/territorial government health expenditure by use of funds and province/territory.

National Health Expenditure Trends, 2023: Data Tables — Series F (XLSX)

Data tables
Published November 2, 2023

This series of data tables contains information on provincial/territorial government health expenditure, by province/territory and Canada.

Acute care: Indicators

Acute care: Indicators kathschach Fri, 10/07/2022 - 16:18

This page lists CIHI’s indicators on acute care.

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Wait Times for Knee Replacement (Percentiles)

Indicator
Published April 4, 2024

This indicator provides the number of days between the date the patient and the appropriate physician agreed to a total knee replacement and the date the patient received the surgery.

Acute care: Tools

Acute care: Tools kathschach Fri, 10/07/2022 - 16:26

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

Acute care: Data holdings

Acute care: Data holdings kathschach Fri, 10/07/2022 - 16:30

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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Acute care

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A Step Toward Understanding Health Care Trajectories of People Living With Dementia (PDF)

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Discharge Abstract Database Open-Year Data Quality Test Specifications, 2019–2020 (PDF)

Discharge Abstract Database Open-Year Data Quality Test Specifications, 2020–2021 (PDF)

Discharge Abstract Database Open-Year Data Quality Test Specifications, 2023–2024 (PDF)

Early Identification of People at Risk of Hospitalization: Hospital Admission Risk Prediction (HARP) (PDF)

Estimating Planned Surgical Cancellations Due to COVID-19 Using Historical Data — Summary (PDF)

Exploring Occupancy Through Administrative Data (PPTX)

Exploring Occupancy Through Administrative Data: A Test Case Using Operating Rooms (PDF)

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Inpatient Hospitalization, Surgery and Newborn Statistics, 2019–2020 (XLSX)

Long-Term Care Beds in Canada — Data Table (XLSX)

Measuring Trends in Health Inequalities in Cities: Hospitalization and Day Surgery Indicator Results, by Census Subdivision — Data Tables (XLSX)

Measuring Trends in Health Inequalities in Cities: Hospitalization and Day Surgery Indicator Results, Overall and by Census Metropolitan Area — Data Tables (XLSX)

NACRS Emergency Department Visits and Length of Stay, 2017–2018 (XLSX)

National Health Expenditure Trends, 2023 — Open Data (XLSX)

National Health Expenditure Trends, 2023: Data Tables — Series D2 (XLSX)

National Health Expenditure Trends, 2023: Data Tables — Series D3 (XLSX)

National Health Expenditure Trends, 2023: Data Tables — Series D4 (XLSX)

National Health Expenditure Trends, 2023: Data Tables — Series F (XLSX)

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