Evidence guiding health care
Methodology:
• Fiscal year 2006/07 • Cohort = Ontarians (derived from the Registered Persons
Database [RPDB]) • EDC algorithm applied to Canadian Institute for Health
• Prevalence rates for other chronic conditions (diabetes, asthma, cancer, congestive heart failure and hypertension) not reported using the ACG System already being measured, or will be measured in the near future, using validated algorithms developed by ICES and Cancer Care Ontario.
• Exclusions: Persons less than 20 years of age (less than 35 years of age for calculation of COPD rates) Out-of-province residents Records with missing/invalid age, sex, and/or LHIN information Individuals who died or whose date of last contact with the health care system was greater than 5 years