Database* | Resources |
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New Drug Funding Program | Chemotherapy drugs |
Activity Level Reporting System | Radiotherapy |
OHIP Claims History Database | Diagnostic tests, physician services, chemotherapy visits before 2002, emergency department visits before 2002 |
Ontario Drug Benefit Program | Outpatient prescription drugs for patients aged ≥ 65 years, long-term care indicator |
CIHI Discharge Abstract Database | Inpatient hospital admissions, same-day surgery before 2002 |
CIHI National Ambulatory Care Reporting System | Chemotherapy visits after 2002, emergency department visits after 2002, same-day surgery after 2002 |
Continuing Care Reporting System | Stays in complex continuing care facilities |
Ontario Home Care Administrative System | Home care before April 2005 |
Home Care Database | Home care after April 2005 |
CIHI = Canadian Institute for Health Information, OHIP = Ontario Health Insurance Plan. *All databases were available through the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, with the exception of the New Drug Funding Program and Activity Level Reporting System obtained from Cancer Care Ontario.