Types of ICES data
ICES holds several kinds of data in the following categories:
1. Health Services Administrative Data
- Physician billings
- Prescription drug claims for those 65 and older
- Inpatient hospital discharges
- Emergency and ambulatory care visits
- Home care and rehabilitation claims
- Long-term care visits
2. People and Geography
- Population estimates
- Canada census profiles
- Death records
- All Ontarians eligible for health care benefits
3. Special Collections
- Registries (cancer, stroke, cardiac care)
- First Nations and Métis
- Developmental disabilities
- Federal immigration information
4. Derived Conditions
- Diabetes
- Hypertension
- Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
- Asthma
- Acute myocardial infarction
- Congestive heart failure
- Inflammatory bowel disease
5. Survey Data
6. Clinical Data
- Patient information collected with consent in primary clinical studies
- Supplementary clinical data from individual hospitals and other institutions
7. Chart Abstraction Data
- Information on processes and quality of care collected directly from patients’ charts