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Explore information on pharmaceutical care, including reports, data tables and other key resources.

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Drugs for rare diseases

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  • November 21, 2024
ŗģĮģ½ķ¹Ļ±Øis working to improve the collection and use of real-world evidence about drugs for rare diseases as part of the National Strategy for Drugs for Rare Diseases.

Pharmaceutical Data Tool

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  • March 28, 2024
The Pharmaceutical Data Tool enhances access to key pharmaceutical information for analytical and policy needs by providing details about public drug programs and formularies.

Prescribed drug spending in Canada, 2023

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  • November 2, 2023
Take an in-depth look at prescribed drug spending in Canada in 2022 and learn about how different drug classes contribute to current trends in total public drug program spending.

Huntington disease in Canada

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  • November 21, 2024
Learn about Huntington disease (HD) in long-term care (LTC) and clinic settings, including drugs prescribed to LTC residents with HD.

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Pharmaceutical care: Overview

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Prescription drugs play an essential role in modern medicine. Used in the treatment of various diseases, they have become an increasingly significant component of Canadaā€™s health care systems. ŗģĮģ½ķ¹Ļ±Øhas established the Pharmaceuticals Program to better understand issues related to drug use, patient safety and the provision of care in Canada.

National Prescription Drug Utilization Information System (NPDUIS)

CIHIā€™s National Prescription Drug Utilization Information System (NPDUIS) provides access to comprehensive and comparative pan-Canadian information on the use of prescribed drugs, focusing primarily on publicly financed drug benefit programs. 

NPDUIS provides access to

  • Standardized information on prescription drug use and costs from across jurisdictions to inform management of drug plans 
  • Information that supports exploration and analysis of the interplay among plan design, formulary listings and drug utilization 
  • Information that supports analysis of policy decisions and their impact on drug utilization 
  • Trends on utilization over time and across jurisdictions

ŗģĮģ½ķ¹Ļ±Øis working on a multi-year project to consolidate pan-Canadian prescription drug data (public, private, hospital and cancer) into a modernized information system and make it available to decision-makers and researchers to maximize its use for decision-making purposes. This work requires collaboration with provinces and territories, as well as with organizations such as Canadaā€™s Drug Agency.
 

Pharmaceutical Data Tool

This interactive tool is designed to make key pharmaceutical information more comprehensive for stakeholdersā€™ analytical and policy needs. It provides information on the design, payment structures and formularies of public drug programs in Canada.

Future enhancements to this tool will include the addition of metrics related to prescribing and spending for publicly funded drugs across Canada. Specific topics will include 

  • Prescribed drug spending
  • Prescribed drug use among seniors
  • Spending on high-cost drugs
  • Spending on biologic drugs

National System for Incident Reporting (NSIR)Ā 

CIHIā€™s National System for Incident Reporting (NSIR) allows facilities to anonymously report medication (Rx) and radiation treatment (RT) incidents. NSIR does not collect identifiable patient or provider information, nor does it identify participating facilities. It supports an environment of sharing and learning to improve patient safety across facilities in Canada. 

NSIR data supports a variety of quality improvement activities, including 

  • Identifying safety strategies at the local level 
  • Summarizing an organizationā€™s own data for internal reporting, as well as data on incidents from across the country to allow for collective analysis and solution development 
  • Supporting stakeholders in the development of system-wide alerts and recommendations 
  • Providing an anonymous messaging tool to let participating organizations share lessons learned 

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Pharmaceutical care: Reports and releases

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This page lists pharmaceutical care reports, stories, infographics and release summaries.

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Huntington disease in Canada

  • Release summary
  • Published
Learn about Huntington disease (HD) in long-term care (LTC) and clinic settings, including drugs prescribed to LTC residents with HD.

Drugs for rare diseases

  • Project
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ŗģĮģ½ķ¹Ļ±Øis working to improve the collection and use of real-world evidence about drugs for rare diseases as part of the National Strategy for Drugs for Rare Diseases.

National health expenditure trends

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An overview of Canadian health spending trends, featuring comparative expenditure data at provincial, territorial and international levels.

Data Learnings for Rare Disease Analysis (PDF)

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This report highlights some key considerations to support those using ŗģĮģ½ķ¹Ļ±Ødata for analyses of drugs for rare diseases and explores opportunities to improve data to support these analyses.

Pan-Canadian Prescription Drug Data Landscape (PDF)

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This report summarizes information about prescription drug data in Canada (assets, needs, gaps, limitations and opportunities) by jurisdiction.

Pharmaceutical care: Data tables

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This page lists data tables that provide information about pharmaceutical care.

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Huntington Disease in Canada ā€” Data Tables (XLSX)

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These data tables contain information about adult Huntington disease (HD), including information about individuals with HD living in a long-term care (LTC) facility, medication use for LTC residents with HD, and clinic visits.

Pharmaceutical care: Indicators

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This page lists CIHIā€™s pharmaceutical care indicators.

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Pharmaceutical care: Tools

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This page lists CIHIā€™s performance reporting tools that contain pharmaceutical care data.

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Pharmaceutical Data Tool

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The Pharmaceutical Data Tool enhances access to key pharmaceutical information for analytical and policy needs by providing details about public drug programs and formularies.

Pharmaceutical care: Data holdings

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This page contains information about CIHIā€™s pharmaceutical care data holdings. 

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Pharmaceutical care: News and podcasts

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This page contains media releases, bulletins and podcast episodes about pharmaceutical care.

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Pharmaceutical care: Education resources

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Through our Learning Centre, ŗģĮģ½ķ¹Ļ±Øprovides opportunities for health professionals to understand our evolving reporting systems and the application of our standards, data and analytics. We offer many courses and resources for a variety of audiences, including clinicians, assessors, data submitters and analysts, decision-makers, policy planners and researchers.

Courses and resources are available in a variety of formats, including eLearning modules, PDF and page-based documents, live and recorded web conferences, and videos.

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Case mix

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Case-mix grouping methodologies help health care facilities plan and manage their services.

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Medications commonly prescribed in home and continuing care settings.

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A summary of the Mental ŗģĮģ½ķ¹Ļ±Ø Clinical Assessment Protocols (MH CAPs), including a listing of the trigger levels and contributing assessment items for each MH CAP.

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The RAIā€“Mental ŗģĮģ½ķ¹Ļ±Ø (RAI-MH) is an assessment used to evaluate the needs, strengths and preferences of a person. The significant change-in-status assessment guidelines provide tips for clinicians.

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The Ontario Mental ŗģĮģ½ķ¹Ļ±Ø Reporting System (OMHRS) Interpreting SWPD Reports Guide assists facilities in reviewing their facility specific System for the Classification of In-Patient Psychiatry (SCIPP) Weighted Patient Day (SWPD) reports. Find thisā€¦

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The Ontario Mental ŗģĮģ½ķ¹Ļ±Ø Reporting System ā€” Guide to Interpreting Quarterly Comparative Reports explains the format and the information presented in the Quarterly Comparative Reports.