Rate of harmful events in hospitals in Canada 2014/15-2022/23
In the fiscal year 2022-2023, the rate of events in which a patient was harmed amounted to around one in 17 hospital stays in Canada. For that year, 146,000 out of 2.4 million hospitalizations incurred at least one harmful event. There are four categories of harmful events: health care and medications, infections, procedure-related, and patient accidents.