"Other" includes other specified locality, other health-care facilities or private homes (excludes unknown localities)
Data source: Statistics Canada, Vital Statistics Death Database
"Other" includes other specified locality, other health-care facilities or private homes (excludes unknown localities)
Data source: Statistics Canada, Vital Statistics Death Database
Figure 5.3ii
Percentage of all cancer deaths occurring in hospital, private home or other, by province — 2011 death year
“Other” includes other specified locations, other health care facilities, private homes and unknown locations.
Hospices can be classified as “Other” or “Hospital” depending on province.
The definition of hospital varied across provinces. QC: “Hospital” included residential and long-term care centres. MB: Designated palliative care units were included in “Hospital.” In other provinces this type of bed might have been considered part of long-term care (“Other”). As a result, percentages of hospital deaths for QC and MB may appear higher relative to other provinces but do not necessarily indicate any actual differences in delivery of services.
The way palliative care beds are designated in hospitals varies across provinces. The resulting variation in reporting deaths that occurred in hospital is unknown.
Coding on death certificates varies by province. SK and PE: A very small proportion of deaths are recorded at home, suggesting that most in-home deaths may be recorded in “Other.”
Data source: Statistics Canada, Vital Statistics Death Database.
“Other” includes other specified locations, other health care facilities, private homes and unknown locations.
Hospices can be classified as “Other” or “Hospital” depending on province.
The definition of hospital varied across provinces. QC: “Hospital” included residential and long-term care centres. MB: Designated palliative care units were included in “Hospital.” In other provinces this type of bed might have been considered part of long-term care (“Other”). As a result, percentages of hospital deaths for QC and MB may appear higher relative to other provinces but do not necessarily indicate any actual differences in delivery of services.
The way palliative care beds are designated in hospitals varies across provinces. The resulting variation in reporting deaths that occurred in hospital is unknown.
Coding on death certificates varies by province. SK and PE: A very small proportion of deaths are recorded at home, suggesting that most in-home deaths may be recorded in “Other.”
Data source: Statistics Canada, Vital Statistics Death Database.
Definition: Percentage of deaths of cancer patients by location: hospital, other health care facility, private home, or other location
Numerator:
By province: Number of cancer deaths in: hospital; other
Canada: Number of cancer deaths in hospital; private home; other
Denominator: Number of cancer deaths
Data source: Canadian Vital Statistics – Death Database (annual file)
Measurement timeframe: 2005 to 2009
Stratification variables: Province
Notes:
All deaths in British Columbia in 2005 and 2006 were recorded as unknown location.
In the figure, Cancer patient place of death, by province – 2009, unknown location was excluded. “Other” included other specified locality, other health care facility and private home.
In the figure, Cancer patient place of death, Canada – 2005 to 2009, “Other” included other specified locality, other health care facility and unknown locality.
Includes data from all provinces and territories.
Data and measurement considerations
Data for this indicator were submitted by the provinces to Statistics Canada. The Canadian Vital Statistics Death Database includes a data element identifying cause of death and location of death grouped into the following categories: hospital, other health-care facility (e.g., long-term care or chronic-care facility), private home, other specified locality and unknown.
It is important to note that there are various discrepancies in the vital statistics data used to calculate these indicators, particularly around interpretation of the location categories described above. For example, a hospice can be categorized as an “other health-care facility” or as an “other specified locality,” but it could also be located in an acute-care hospital and therefore designated as a hospital setting. It is hoped that reporting on these results will provide an incentive to improve data quality and standardization so that appropriate comparisons can be made. Other regional and jurisdictional considerations include deaths in formal palliative care beds in hospitals, which are more accurately considered hospice deaths. Rural and remote residence may contribute to lack of access to home palliative care, and in some First Nations, Inuit and Métis communities there is no designated health-care funding for palliative care, resulting in the need for patients to stay in hospitals in urban centres.
Percentage of cancer patients dying in an acute-care hospital and admitted to intensive care units in the last 14 days of life, by jurisdiction — 2014/15 and 2015/16 fiscal years combined
