Why is there no performance/colour rating (i.e., green shading) for the patient safety or mental health indicators listed on myhospitalcare.ca?
Performance ratings on the website assess relative hospital performance and are available only for ED wait times and for indicators from Hospital Report (with the exception of the mental health indicators). ED wait times are a length of time, rather than rates based on a population, indicating that relative performance against the provincial average is an accurate reflection of whether a hospital’s wait time is lower than, equal to or better than the average wait time in Ontario. Hospital Report assesses relative hospital performance by calculating statistical significance (which takes into account the hospital’s sample size) and by calculating confidence intervals (which considers how reliable an estimate is). These statistical calculations were not performed on the patient safety indicators, and so performance ratings (and colour shadings) cannot be allocated to the hospitals’ patient safety rates. And since only a subset of all provincial hospitals participated in the survey for men
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