| Database* | Data |
|---|---|
| New Drug Funding Program | Chemotherapy drugs |
| Activity Level Reporting System | Radiotherapy |
| Ontario Health Insurance Plan Claims History Database | Diagnostic tests, physician services, chemotherapy visits, emergency department visits before 2002 |
| Ontario Drug Benefit plan data | Outpatient prescription drugs for patients aged ≥ 65 yr, oral antineoplastic drugs, long-term care indicator |
| CIHI-Discharge Abstract Database | Inpatient admissions to hospital (cancer-related surgeries and other admissions), same-day surgeries before 2002 |
| CIHI-National Ambulatory Care Reporting System | Emergency department visits after 2002; same-day surgeries after 2002 |
| Continuing Care Reporting System | Stays in complex continuing care facilities |
| Ontario Home Care Administrative System | Home care up to Mar. 31, 2005 |
| Home Care Database | Home care after Mar. 31, 2005 |
Note: CIHI = Canadian Institute for Health Information. *All databases were available at the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, Ont., with the exception of the New Drug Funding Program and Activity Level Reporting System, which were available through Cancer Care Ontario.