Acute care: Indicators

This indicator measures the risk-adjusted rate of urgent readmissions within 30 days of discharge for episodes of care for several patient groups.

This indicator measures the age-standardized acute care hospitalization rate for conditions where appropriate ambulatory care prevents or reduces the need for admission to hospital.

This indicator provides the crude assisted delivery rate (overall) among vaginal deliveries.

This indicator measures the crude rate of all Caesarean sections (C-sections) per 100 deliveries. Lower rates are desirable.

This indicator measures the age-standardized rate of coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery performed on inpatients in acute care hospitals or percutaneous coronary interventions (PCIs) performed on patients in acute care hospitals, same-day surgery…

This is an acute care contextual measure developed to characterize the risk of frailty among seniors in hospitals across Canada.

​This measure describes whether doctors communicated well with patients. Results show the percentage of patients who responded most favourably in the CPES-IC survey.

​This measure describes whether nurses communicated well with patients. Results show the percentage of patients who responded most favourably in the CPES-IC survey.

This indicator measures the age-standardized rate of coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery performed on inpatients in acute care hospitals, per 100,000 population age 18 and older.

This indicator gives the ratio of a hospital’s total acute inpatient expenses to the number of acute inpatient cases adjusted for resource use (RIW).