Jul 19
How different countries including Canada compare for Patient Safety Measures?
Patient safety measures as used:
['Foreign Body Left In',
'OB Trauma: Instrument', 'OB Trauma: No Instrument',
'Post-Op PE: Hip and Knee', 'Post-Op Sepsis: Abdominal']
Dataset: from CIHI, Canada (Open and public data). Data for 2014-2015
Units for measurements for the indicators:
['Crude rate per 100,000 hospital discharges', 'Crude rate per 100 non c-section deliveries with instrument', 'Crude rate per 100 non c-section deliveries without instrument', 'Crude rate per 100,000 hip or knee replacement surgery discharges', 'Crude rate per 100,000 abdominal surgery discharges']
However, for the plot/Heatmap the values are normalized; hence, units can be ignored. Values are for relative comparisons.
Jul 17
How does Canada compare with other countries for Waiting time for Specialists?
How does Canada compare with some other countries for Waiting time for Specialists? Apparently, from the data and the visualization: Canada does not perform great. Values are in days (you can simply consider them as relative scales as well). The plot took averages/mean of the available data for couple of years.
41% reported waiting two months or more, 7% more than the country ranked second-lowest; and: [Matched with the visualization.] Reference: https://www.cihi.ca/sites/default/files/document/hcic2012_intro_en.pdf
Jul 15
How different Canadian Regions/Provinces compare for Health Status Indicators?
As my code found using a dataset (on Health System Performance) from CIHI, Canada.
Available Data Averaged for 2013 to 2017
Health Status Indicators:
['Cancer Mortality (F)',
'Cancer Mortality (M)', 'Heart Disease Mortality',
'Infant Mortality', 'Life Expectancy at Birth (F)',
'Life Expectancy at Birth (M)', 'Perceived Health Status',
'Stroke Mortality',
'Suicide (F)', 'Suicide (M)',
'Transport Accident Mortality (F)', 'Transport Accident Mortality (M)'],












