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National Ambulatory Care Reporting System (NACRS)

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Emergency and ambulatory care is one of the largest-volume patient activities, which makes it a key point of the continuum of health services in Canada. To better understand how this component of care is formed and shifting, several databases are managed to provide stakeholders with insight on visits, patient demographics and clinical, administrative and service-specific data associated with day surgery, emergency departments and outpatient clinics. These databases are fundamental components in carrying out the mandate to deliver unbiased, quality, reliable and relevant information to support decision-making and inform health care discussions. One of these core databases is National Ambulatory Care Reporting System (NACRS). The NACRS is a

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