This indicator measures the rate of acute care hospitalizations with at least one occurrence of unintended harm during a hospital stay that could potentially have been prevented.
A lower rate for this indicator is desirable.
Data availability:
to (fiscal years)
Geographic coverage
All provinces/territories except Quebec
Reporting level
National
Calculation
This indicator is expressed as the number of hospital discharges with at least one occurrence of harm per 100 discharges.
Unit of analysis: Hospital discharge
5 patient groups are hierarchically defined in the following order:
- Newborn patient group: Entry_code = N
- Obstetric patient group: Major clinical category (MCC) 13
- Pediatric patient group: Age younger than 18 years
- Surgical patient group: MCC partition code = I (intervention)
- Medical patient group: MCC partition code = D (diagnosis)
For further information on the methodology, please refer to the Hospital Harm Indicator General Methodology Notes (PDF).
Denominator
Number of discharges from an acute care institution in a fiscal year
Numerator
A subset of the denominator: discharges with at least one occurrence of harm identified during the hospital stay
Comments
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