The rise of cases throughout the Canadian population has been more rapid, however. COVID among heath-care workers made up 9.5 per cent of all total Canadian cases from August 2020 to January 2021, down from 19.4 per cent from the start of the pandemic to July 2020. The CIHI says almost all provinces saw an increase in COVID-19 infections in health-care workers with Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta and B.C., experiencing larger percentage increases compared with the other provinces and territories. This report by The Canadian Press was first published Feb. 25, 2021.
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TORONTO - A new study based on a decade's worth of Ontario health data found more people are facing severe disease, and at a younger age.Lead author Mit.
Abstract
BACKGROUND: New case-mix tools from the Canadian Institute for Health Information offer a novel way of exploring the prevalence of chronic disease and multimorbidity using diagnostic data. We took a comprehensive approach to determine whether the prevalence of chronic disease and multimorbidity has been rising in Ontario, Canada.
METHODS: In this observational study, we applied case-mix methodology to a population-based cohort. We used 10 years of patient-level data (fiscal years 2008/09 to 2017/18) from multiple care settings to compute the rolling 5-year prevalence of 85 chronic diseases and multimorbidity (i.e., the co-occurrence of 2 or more diagnoses). Diseases were further classified based on type and severity. We report both crude and age- and sex-standardized trends.
Cape Breton Regional Hospital has highest C-section rate for low-risk mothers in N.S.
From 2017 to 2020 about 23 percent of women who fall in the low-risk category had C-sections at the Cape Breton Regional Hospital.
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About 23 per cent with low-risk pregnancy who gave birth at hospital between 2017 and 2020 had C-section
Posted: Feb 22, 2021 6:00 AM AT | Last Updated: February 22
Cape Breton Regional Hospital has highest number of low-risk C-sections in the province.(Dragan Grkic/Shutterstock)
Cape Breton Regional Hospital is seeing a rise in caesarean sections among mothers with low-risk pregnancies.
About 23 per cent of women with a low-risk pregnancy who gave birth at the hospital between 2017 and 2020 had C-sections, according to numbers from the Reproductive Care Program of Nova Scotia.