The Fraser Institute’s Hospital Report Card: British Columbia 2008 provides an invaluable tool that patients and the general public can use to stimulate improvements in the quality of health services by measuring the performance of British Columbia's acute care hospitals.

The 39 measures of in-hospital quality of care information contained in the Hospital Report Card analyse just under two million patient records over the period from April 1st, 2001 to March 31st, 2006.

Data from all of British Columbia's acute care hospitals are included in the report. None of British Columbia's 95 acute-care hospitals granted us authorization to identify them by name in this report and are thus anonymously shown in the report by number.

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Please refer to the pdf files below for further information:

1. Overview and Observations
2. Hospital Mortality Index
3. Observed Rates by Hospital
4. Risk-adjusted Rates by Hospital
5. Scores by Hospital
6. Rankings by Hospital
7. Observed Rates by Municipality
8. Risk-adjusted Rates by Municipality
9. Scores by Municipality
10. Rankings by Municipality
11. Methodological Appendices
12. FAQs about the Hospital Report Card

Links to Other Helpful Websites

1. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality indicator modules
2. Information of Risk Adjustment software: 3M™ All Patient Refined DRG (APR-DRG) and CMS-DRG Software
3. Other similar reports:
   • New York
   • Colorado
   • Texas
   • Norton Healthcare
   • Oregon
   • Missouri
   • Hospital Report Research Collaborative
   • Manitoba
4. Canadian Institute for Health Information