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. 2012 Jun 10;12:149. doi: 10.1186/1472-6963-12-149

Table 1.

Provincial characteristics one year before and one year after ICD-10 implementation

Province NL PEI NS NB ON MB SK AB BC
Year before and after ICD 10 implementation
2000
2001
2000
2001
2000
2001
2002
2003
2001
2002
2003
2004
2001
2002
2001
2002
2000
2001
Population count (thousands)
527.9
522.0
136.5
136.7
933.8
932.5
749.3
749.4
11,896.7
12,091.0
1,163.8
1,173.6
1,000.2
996.8
3,058.0
3,128.4
4,039.2
4,076.3
Number of hospitals/ clinical units submitting data
35
27
6
7
32
35
33
29
211
203
73
72
63
62
99
100
90
82
Number of discharges/year 1,251 1,205 900 952 1,912 2,000 1,671 1,761 11,257 11,183 2,737 2,798 2,904 3,027 3,433 3,736 3,892 3,975

* Data from Statistics Canada’s Hospital Person-Oriented Information database (HPOI)

Notes: NL Newfoundland and Labrador, PEI Prince Edward Island, NS Nova Scotia, NB New Brunswick, ON Ontario, MB Manitoba, SK Saskatchewan, AB Alberta, BC British Columbia, ICD International Classification of Disease