AVÐÇÇò Portal: Support
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Looking for AVÐÇÇò Portal support? To become a Portal user, contact us for a personalized needs assessment. If you would like to request access to Portal or change your existing Portal access, please consult the job aid Request/Change Access to AVÐÇÇò Portal (PDF).
If you are already a registered Portal user, you have several options.
- Browse our Frequently Asked Questions (PDF), or ask a question about creating or modifying reports in Portal with eQuery.
- Join a User Community session. These analytically focused sessions are open to all Portal users and are held on the last Wednesday of every second month of the fiscal year, starting in May. Topics and questions of interest to users are addressed during these web conferences.
- Schedule one-on-one time with a Portal Services senior analyst and use AVÐÇÇò Portal to the fullest.
View our latest release documents​​
- Portal Release 19.9: Updated DAD and NACRS data for 2024–2025
- Portal Release 19.8: Release of NRS 2024-2025 Q1 data
- Portal Release 19.7: Updated DAD and NACRS data for 2024-2025, release of 2023 population estimates, updated 2023-2024 geography data
- Portal Release 19.6: Release of 2022–2023 CMDB data and updated 2018–2019 to 2021–2022 data
- Portal Release 19.5: Updated DAD and NACRS data for 2023–2024, updated 2024–2025 data and closed 2023–2024 data year
- Portal Release 19.4: Updated DAD and NACRS data for 2023–2024 and 2024–2025
- Portal Release 19.3: Release of NRS 2023–2024 Q4 data
- Portal Release 19.2: Updated DAD and NACRS data for 2023–2024 and 2024–2025, and added new 2024 case-mix methodologies
- Portal Release 19.1: Updated DAD and NACRS data for 2023–2024
Contact us at portal@cihi.ca to request historical release notes not available on this page.
Data release and downtime schedule
Data is released in Portal on a monthly, quarterly and annual basis
- For DAD and NACRS, data submitted by the third business day of the month is released on the 15th business day of the same month.
- For the NRS, data submitted by the NRS submission deadline is included in the quarterly refresh.
- For the CMDB, data is released when it becomes available, usually annually.
| Project | Submission cut-off date | Release date | Downtimes |
|---|---|---|---|
| DAD and NACRS | September 5, 2024 | September 19, 2024 | September 18 and 19, 2024 |
| DAD and NACRS | October 3, 2024 | October 22, 2024 | October 21 and 22, 2024 |
| DAD and NACRS | November 5, 2024 | November 21, 2024 | November 20 and 21, 2024 |
| NRS | November 15, 2024 | November 28, 2024 | November 28, 2024 |
| DAD and NACRS | December 4, 2024 | December 19, 2024 | December 18 and 19, 2024 |
| DAD and NACRS | January 6, 2025 | January 22, 2025 | January 21 and 22, 2025 |
| DAD and NACRS | February 5, 2025 | February 20, 2025 | February 19 and 20, 2025 |
| NRS | February 14, 2025 | February 27, 2025 | February 27, 2025 |
AVÐÇÇò Portal metadata documents
Learn more about the data found in AVÐÇÇò Portal with these metadata documents:
- Discharge Abstract Database (DAD) Metadata Dictionary (PDF)
- National Ambulatory Care Reporting System (NACRS) Metadata Dictionary (PDF)
- National Rehabilitation Reporting System (NRS) Metadata Dictionary (PDF)
- Canadian MIS Database (CMDB) (PDF)
Learn more about available data, including data years and grouping methodologies.
Additional support documents
Visit AVÐÇÇò’s Codes, Classifications, and Terminologies page to learn more about data classification codes and standards and how to apply them.
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