Patient safety: Reports and releases

CIHI is working with stakeholders to develop standards that enable connected care and health data interoperability in Canada.

Hospital health workers’ rates of sick time and overtime peaked during the pandemic. CIHI offers a glimpse of how hospital workers and patients fared during the COVID-19 crisis.

Learn more about a patient safety measure of potentially preventable hospital harm in Canada, and how it is linked to evidence-informed practices.

This infographic describes the Hospital Harm indicator, which captures occurrences of unintended harm during a hospital stay that could have been potentially prevented.

​​This infographic presents a profile of seniors at risk of frailty in Canada, including top deficits (or frailty conditions), health outcomes and more

Explore information on selected interventions (policies and other measures) across Canada to stop the spread of and improve health outcomes related to COVID-19 (coronavirus disease).

Read this evaluation of NSIR-RT, which was pilot-tested by 28 cancer treatment centres. The report focuses on patient safety objectives, client support and the data quality of the RT incident pilot data.

Measuring Patient Harm in Canadian Hospitals

A summary of results from a reabstraction study on DAD data, providing an assessment of coding quality, with a particular focus on data used to measure patient safety.

Catalogue of patient safety information in CIHI's data holdings and publicly available products.