Creator:

Statistics Canada

Geography:

North America > Canada

Categories:

• Cardiovascular Disease

Tags:

• cardiovascular diseases
• circulatory disease
• congestive heart failure
• heart attack
• hospitalizations
• mortality
• stroke

Date:

2005

URL:

http://www.statcan.gc.ca/studies-etudes/82-003/archive/2005/8710-eng.pdf

Annotation:

Data on hospital separations and patients are from the Health Person-oriented Information (HPOI) Database, maintained by Statistics Canada. To determine the number of patients, acute care hospital records for each province for fiscal years 1994/95 to 2001/02 were linked using patient identification numbers.  Only records for acute care hospitals and with stays less than 90 days were used.  Data on deaths attributed to diseases of the circulatory system are from the Canadian Mortality Database, which is maintained by Statistics Canada. The data are abstracted and compiled from death certificates by the vital statistics registrar in each province and territory.