Navigating the CIHI Website

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Navigating the CIHI Website

• Secrets to unlocking and accessing a wealth of
  health data and information

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Agenda

• Introduction
• Training goals
• How CIHI and its website works
• Advanced searching on the website
• New search tools
• Your queries
• A new CIHI website
• Introducing CIHI Portal
• QA

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Introductions

• Welcome to OLAH members, health librarians,
  researchers, analysts
• Susan Anderson, CIHI Web Content
• Training on navigating CIHIs website
• Amber McVicar, CIHI Portal
• An introduction to CIHIs new BI tool and data
  warehouse

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Training Goals

• Understand CIHI and how the CIHI website works to
  retrieve information and data, including helpful
  tips and secrets to accessing
• Reports
• Statistics
• Understand advanced searching on the CIHI
  website
• Learn about new and upcoming search and access
  tools
• Learn about how to help CIHI create its new
  website
• Learn about CIHIs new BI tool
• Have an opportunity for QAs

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Part 1 How the CIHI Website Works
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Understanding CIHI and its Website

• Current website designed in 2001
• Structured for CIHI reports and databases
• The difference between information from CIHI and
  Statistics Canada
• CIHI has a greater emphasis on the performance of
  the health system
• Spending
• Health professionals
• Health care services
• Statistics Canada has a greater emphasis on the
  health of the population Cancer, Seniors, BMI,
• One exception CIHIs Canadian Population Health
  Initiative

The Secret Website designed prior to usability,
search and access standards
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Understanding how CIHIs website works

• Reports
• Searching within Reports to find information and
  statistics
• A-Z index/Search by Title
• Subject index
• Related Content
• Media Release archives
• Statistics
• Search QuickStats to find graphs and charts
• Aggregate level data
• A-Z index
• Topic index
• Browsing
• Navigation, Series of Indexes, Site Index
• Searching
• Powered by Google Search
• Lets take a look

The Secret Search on List of Figures, List
of Tables, List of Graphs, List of related
figures, List of related content
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Searching within Reports

• News/Media Releases
• Analytic Reports
• Includes data
• Publications and Products
• Site Map
• A-Z Index of Site
• Lets take a look

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The Secret Use browsers Find on this page
feature
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Searching within Media Releases
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Searching within Analytic Reports
The Secret Analytic Reports contain graphs and
tables with data
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Searching within Publications
The Secret One-stop Source for all CIHI reports
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Searching within A-Z Index of Site
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The Secret Newly updated
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Searching for Statistics

• Search QuickStats
• A-Z index
• Topic index
• Database index
• Search Health Indicators
• Site Search
• Topic ABC
• List of Figures, List of Tables, List of
  Graphs, List of related figures, List of
  related content
• Search Media Releases and Media Release Archives
• Search for answers through the eQuery tool
• Send specific requests and questions to
  communications_at_cihi.ca

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Searching for Statistics QuickStats
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Searching for Statistics

• Site Search
• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• List of Graphs
• List of Charts
• List of related figures
• List of selected figures
• List of related content
• Health Indicators
• CIHIs Health Indicators available in QuickStats
• List of available Health Indicators
• http//secure.cihi.ca/indicators/2007/en/datatable
  s_maps07_e.html

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Part 2 Using Advanced Search on the CIHI
Website
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Google search appliance

• Basic search
• Limitations Too many results returned
• Advanced search
• Use phrased searching and quotes
• Put quotes around a phrase two words or more
  to improve results
• Limits returns to exact phrase
• Put quotes around two unique phrases
• This technique adds AND to the two phrases
• Limits returned results to the exact phrases

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Advanced searching tips

• Look for two or more words by using AND
• Example nurses" AND Ontario" will match
  documents that have both the word nurses and the
  word Ontario anywhere within.
• Look for synonyms by using OR.
• Example nurses" OR Ontario" will match
  documents that contain the words nurses or
  Ontario, but not necessarily both.
• Look for words that are close to each other by
  using NEAR.
• Example registered nurses" NEAR Ontario" will
  match documents where the word nurses is within
  50 words of the word Ontario.
• Look for words that begin with the same letters
  by using a single asterisk.
• Example nurses will match nurse, nurses, nursing

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More Search Tips

• To conduct more precise search queries...
• Keep searches simple one to three words
• Enclose phrases in quotation marks nursing home
  falls"
• Exclude words with minus signs (put a space
  before the minus sign) pneumonia -sars
• To specify periods, use range and two periods
  arthritis 2001..2004
• To search body text in PDFs use allintext
• allintextchronic diseases

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Example Using basic search

• List of chronic diseases by age group

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Example Phrased Searching using Quotes

• List of chronic diseases by age group

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Example

• Percentage 65 and older who have arthritis

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To sum up

• Take the virtual tour of the website to learn
  more about the ways to find the information
  you're looking for
• Visit our search engine
• Visit our Topic and A-Z Indexes
• Publications
• Media Releases
• QuickStats and Health Indicators
• Contact CIHI and we'll try to help you find what
  you're looking for
• communications_at_cihi.ca

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OHLA member queries

• List of chronic diseases by age group. And more
  specifically, what percentage of those 65 and
  older have arthritis
• Search on chronic diseases age group and
  Arthritis over 65
• Report http//secure.cihi.ca/cihiweb/en/download
  s/ccrs_falls_jan30_2007_e.pdf
• Found within report
• Chronic Illness
• Arthritis
• Dementia
• Depression
• Hemiparesis
• Hip Fracture
• Multiple Sclerosis
• Parkinsons Disease
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• Number of people in nursing homes or long term
  care facilities who are cognitively impaired.
• cognitively impaired seniors OR long term OR
  residential care
• Number of people aged 65 and over who are
  hospitalized because of a fall that happens in a
  nursing home.
• falls in nursing homes (WWW search)
• http//www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/seniors-aines/pubs/seni
  ors_falls/technical/technical-report-residential_e
  .htm

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Part 3A Look at New Tools to Access CIHI Data
and Information
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New Tools

• Launched
• CIHI Portal BI tool Subscription launched 06
• eQuery tool June 07
• Zoom-in-on data series August 07
• Coming Soon
• Key Report Topic Index Coming October 07
• PDF crawler Coming January 08
• Implement Google advanced search Coming January
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• New online library and store Coming March 08
• Lets Take a Look

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New tools CIHI Portal

• BI and Data Warehouse

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New tools eQuery
The Secret Use eQuery to search or submit your
queries to programs and products at CIHI
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New tools Zoom-in-on series
The Secret Clients talked, CIHI listened New
and improved ways of representing statistics and
information
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New tools Key Report Topic Index

• The Secret
• Consolidated index of 17 of the most popular,
  current research reports
• Filtered indexing
• Evergreening with new reports added quarterly

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New tools Store Online Library
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Part 5Creating A New CIHI Website
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Steps to Creating a new Website

• Website survey
• Cybrarian contracted
• Best practice review of health information
  websites
• RFP for Enterprise Content Management and a new
  Web Strategy
• Submit your ideas
• Send an email to webcontent_at_cihi.ca
• Participate on advisory boards
• Send an email to sanderson_at_cihi.ca

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Part 6Introducing CIHI Portal
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Part 7 Questions and Answers
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On behalf of CIHI, our thanks.Susan Anderson,
sanderson_at_cihi.ca613-694-7044Amber
McVicar,amcvicar_at_cihi.ca