Acute care: Indicators

This indicator provides contextual information on obstetrical services and provides the crude epidural rate for vaginal deliveries across Canada.

This indicator gives a breakdown of all patients with end-stage kidney disease (ESKD) receiving renal replacement therapy (RRT) by treatment modality at year-end.

This indicator provides the risk-adjusted rate of patients who had 3 or more inpatient acute care hospitalizations with a cumulative length of stay (LOS) longer than 30 days (high users).

This indicator calculates the risk-adjusted proportion of hip fractures surgically treated within 48 hours of a patient’s initial admission to an acute care hospital, among patients age 18 and older.

This indicator measures the hospitalization rate for hip replacement procedures performed in acute care hospitals or same-day surgery facilities per 100,000 population age 18 and older.

The ratio of the actual number of in-hospital deaths in a region or hospital to the number that would have been expected, based on the types of patients a region or hospital treats.

This indicator measures the rate of in-hospital deaths due to all causes occurring within 30 days of major surgery.

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.

This indicator measures the median number of days patients spend in an inpatient acute care hospital bed when they don’t need acute care before they are discharged to home care.

This indicator calculates the age-standardized rate of hospital stays for harm caused by substance use per 100,000 population age 10 and older.