About the Conservable Days Dashboard

The Conservable Bed Days Dashboard helps users identify where inpatient bed days may potentially be conserved across hospitals and services. Conservable bed days represent acute care days that exceed expected lengths of stay (ELOS), based on case-mix methodology (e.g., HIG-level benchmarks), and are intended to highlight potential opportunities to improve patient flow and reduce avoidable acute care utilization.

The dashboard provides scorecards and trend views by HIG, main patient service, facility, region, and Ontario, allowing users to compare performance against peers, review case volumes and conservable bed days, and identify opportunities to improve patient flow, hospital efficiency, and capacity planning. Results should be interpreted as indicative of potential opportunity rather than definitive measures of inefficiency, as they do not account for all clinical or system-level factors.

Intended Audience

Internal OH Employees
Hospital sector
Ministry of Health

Content

This dashboard presents data on conservable bed days derived from hospital administrative data (i.e., DAD). Conservable bed days are calculated as the number of acute care days exceeding expected length of stay (ELOS) for a given case mix (e.g., HIG), following CIHI-aligned methodology and applicable exclusions (e.g., atypical cases).

The dashboard helps users understand where inpatient bed use may be reducible or optimized by showing conservable bed days, case volumes, and related performance indicators across hospitals, facilities, services, regions, and Ontario overall.

Users will see:

A summary dashboard of key conservable bed day indicators
Scorecards by HIG and Main Patient Service (MPS)
Facility-level comparisons
Time-trend views to see how results change over time
Filters to narrow results by fiscal year, facility, service, region, and case-volume category

In practice, the report is intended to support identification of potential drivers of excess length of stay, inform patient flow improvement efforts, and guide hospital efficiency and capacity planning. It is best used as a starting point for further investigation rather than as a standalone performance judgment.

Methodology

Details on the methodology can be found on the dashboard under the tab titled “Technical Appendix”.

Contacts

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