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Hospital Report Card: Ontario 2009.
Esmail N, Hazel M. Studies in Health Care Policy. Fraser Institute. Calgary, Alberta, Canada; March 2009. ISSN: 1918-2082.

Designed to help patients choose hospitals, this report utilized AHRQ quality indicators to analyze the performance of acute-care hospitals in Ontario. Using an interactive online tool, consumers can look up a particular condition or procedure and compare rates of procedure volume, adverse events, deaths, and utilization.

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