The Hospital Services Volumes dataset includes various service-related metrics and indicators related to the service volumes in the hospitals of Nova Scotia Health and the IWK. The data is collected from multiple sources within the health system, including Hospital Inpatient, Emergency, and Surgical Databases. Measures included in this dataset include emergency visits, emergency visit triage score (CTAS), patient admissions, patient discharges, and surgeries completed. The data is aggregated and anonymized to ensure privacy and does not contain any personally identifiable health information. This data set is used to build the Action for Health Public Reporting and the goal of this project is to provide accessible healthcare information to the general public, researchers, and analysts in order to improve understanding and foster improvements in the healthcare system in Nova Scotia.
