C3i

Introduction

The Canadian Cardiovascular Society (CCS) CCS-C3i dashboard is a pan-Canadian research study that aims to explore the impact of public health and jurisdictional government policies on cardiovascular (CV) care in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. The purpose of the C3I site, in combination with local measures and change processes, is to help inform the health policy and planning needed to reduce the CV health consequences of current and future waves of COVID-19 at the population health level. It is hoped that the lessons learned might also help to prepare better for any subsequent pandemics.

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The CCS encourages researchers, physicians and policy makers to use and share this data to understand the impact of the pandemic and to advocate for provision of optimal CV care in their respective practices and jurisdictions.

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COVID-19 Confirmed Cases, Canada³

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COVID-19 Recovered, Canada³

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COVID-19 Deaths, Canada³

This program was made possible with unrestricted research funding from Novartis Canada.

Questions? Contact healthpolicy@ccs.ca.

IMPACT OF COVID-19 POLICIES ON CARDIOVASCULAR CARE IN CANADA.
Dr. Harindra Wijeysundera, Chair CCS-COVID-19 Challenge for Canada Initiative

Overview

The mission of the Canadian Cardiovascular Society (CCS) COVID-19 Challenge for Canada Initiative (CCS-C3I) is to provide a pan-Canadian understanding of the cardiovascular impact that COVID-19 has on cardiovascular care. Specifically, we are interested in looking at the spillover impact on cardiovascular care due to the COVID-19 pandemic public health countermeasures from March 2020, such as the slow-down of scheduled surgeries and procedures. Our goal is to reduce the cardiovascular health consequences of the current and subsequent waves of the COVID-19 pandemic, by providing up-to-date data from across Canada to health care providers, administrators and policy makers.

Data is provided by national (CIHI) and provincial data custodians and will be updated every three months. We have focused on the cardiovascular admissions and procedures, reported per week, also reported at a national and provincial (where possible) levels. To understand the severity of the cases, we also report the average length of stay per admission/procedure/week and the mean deaths/100 cases. The outcomes are reported only at a national level.

Interpretation

From March 2020, there was a substantial reduction in all CV procedures and admissions. There is no signal on the current data that outcomes were worse for the admissions and procedures performed. We anticipate having patient wait-list data soon.

¹ Data is updated as new "open data" is available from CIHI and other jurisdictional data sources. The open data will be updated every 3 months and may reflect under-reporting from individual institutions.
² All counts with < 5 people is suppressed as per privacy regulations.
³ COVID-19 statistics are provided by Johns Hopkins University. -
⁴ The start of the COVID-19 pandemic is marked with a red line (the 10th week of 2020).

Introduction

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Hospitalizations

Procedures