Public health system-level example variables of interest
| Variables of interest | Components | Sources database | Source database specifications |
| ID | Unique patient identifier provided by the ISQ | FIPA | FIPA contains information about patients covered by the public health insurance |
| Age | FIPA | ||
| Gender | FIPA | ||
| Partial postal code | First three digits | FIPA | |
| Urgent care admission event | BDCU | BDCU contains information about urgent care admissions | |
| Length of hospitalisation | MED-ECHO | MED-ECHO contains information about hospitalisations | |
| Service request event | I-CLSC | I-CLSC contains information about frontline common health and social services |
A list of all available variables that the ISQ can provide can be found at: https://statistique.quebec.ca/research/#/donnees/administratives/sante.
BDCU, Banque de données commune des urgences; FIPA, Fichier d’inscription des personnes assurées; I-CLSC, Système d’information sur la clientèle et les services des CSSS-mission CLSC; ISQ, itut de la Statistique du Québec; MED-ECHO, Maintenance et exploitation des données pour l’étude de la clientèle hospitalières.