1. cihi.ca @cihi_icis
Canadian Institute for Health Information
Harnessing our Strengths to Improve
Care for Children and Youth
October 23, 2016 Bdiverty@cihi.ca
CAPHC - CPDSN National Symposium
Advancing the health of children and youth
Brent Diverty, Vice President Programs
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CIHI and CAPHC-CPDSN 11-
year partnership: Supporting
decision making in
paediatric centres across the
country
• Combines paediatric knowledge and
leadership with analytical expertise,
reliability of data, methodologies and
tools.
• Collaborative projects ;
o Paediatric community of practice
o Monitoring paediatric surgical wait times
o National Paediatric Rehabilitation
Reporting System (Don’t miss: Breakfast
Symposium Monday 7:30 am)
CAPHC and CIHI Partnership
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CIHI collects comparable pan-
Canadian data on many different
aspects of the health system.
• Hospital care, community care,
specialized care, pharmaceuticals, patient
and safety, health workforce, spending,
access and wait times
• National benchmarking to improve local
and system-wide patient outcomes
• Analyses focused on children and youth
• Dashboards for indicator reporting
How can CIHI add value to your work?
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CIHI’s Impact: Indicators such as paediatric
readmissions
YHS: In Depth – Safety indicator – in hospital
sepsis (compare children’s hospitals)
YHS: In Depth – Paediatric readmission to
hospital
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Introducing our panelists….
Tyler Chalk
Director Strategy and Optimization, Hospital for Sick Kids
Jennifer McCallum
Manager Decision Support and Wait Time Office, London Health
Sciences Centre
Dr. Peter Fitzgerald
President, McMaster Children’s Hospital
Shauna Langenberger
Clinical Quality Improvement Consultant, Alberta Health Services