Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease in Ontario

All-cause rates captured all health services In Section 4 (Health services use among persons and incidence rates were standardized by age and sex visits made by persons with COPD, regardless of the with COPD, by Local Health Integration Network), to the 2001 Ontario population, and mortality rates reason for the visit, in order to determine the effect rates of health services use by persons with C [...] North West Non-COPD Population CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY DISEASE IN ONTARIO, 1996/97 TO 2014/15 2. Trends in COPD prevalence, incidence and mortality This section presents age- and sex-standardized For calculation of mortality rates, the numerator is prevalence, incidence and mortality rates for COPD the number of COPD patients in the province who over time, by sex and by LHIN in Ontario. [...] Mortality rates were standardized COPD in the province in a fiscal year, and the to the 2001 Ontario COPD population. [...] For calculation of incidence rates, the numerator is the number of new cases of COPD in the province in a fiscal year, and the denominator is the number of people in the province in the same fiscal year still at risk of developing COPD. [...] Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences 24 CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY DISEASE IN ONTARIO, 1996/97 TO 2014/15 4. Health services use by persons with COPD, by Local Health Integration Network This section presents age- and sex-standardized a measure of the actual time that each person is at For the calculation of rates, the numerators were the rates of health services use by persons with COPD