New CIHI online resource shows hospital performance improving

Four years of clinical and financial indicator results for Canadian acute care facilities now publicly available April 4, 2012—A new resource at www.cihi.ca that looks at clinical and financial performance in acute care hospitals shows that hospitals saw fewer deaths after major surgery, heart attack and stroke; fewer readmissions after heart attack, stroke, and hip and knee surgery; and fewer cases of in-hospital hip fracture in 2010 than in 2007. This resource, a part of the Canadian Hospital Reporting Project at the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI), provides a series of 21 clinical indicators (with risk-adjusted rates) and 9 financial indicators that allows hospitals to compare their performance against those of their peers and to learn from leading practices. See the full CIHI News here.