Canadians can now get a snapshot of how the quality of health care in each province compares with other countries.
The Canadian Institute for Health Information said Thursday that the results of the comparisons are mixed, with no province being consistently the best or worst on measures such as health spending, acute care beds per 1,000 population and self-reported smoking compared with other member countries of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development.
Canada performs well compared with other countries on several measures of effectiveness of care, such as avoidable admissions, but falls behind on patient expectations, a new report says.
The indicators include:
- Avoidable admissions for asthma and diabetes.
- Breast cancer and colorectal cancer survival and mortality.
- Cervical cancer screening.
- Foreign bodies such as sponges left in after surgery.
International comparisons for each province are displayed in a new interactive tool. The graph displays the indicators and users can choose which provincial indicators to display compared with the national figures and the average for all countries in the OECD as well as eight peer countries with developed economies.
"Canada performs well compared with other countries on several measures of effectiveness of care, including avoidable admissions, influenza vaccinations, cancer care and certain acute care outcomes," such as the number
of deaths that occur in hospital within 30 days of being admitted for a heart attack.
"Canada falls behind other countries on measures of patient experience and safety," such as having a doctor spend enough time during a consultation and preventing infections at surgical sites.
In some cases, such as how more Canadian mothers are injured by tears during childbirth without a C-section or help of forceps and other instruments than in many other OECD countries, more thorough reporting may explain the result, the institute said.
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