ob_report_2024
Dataset description:
Under the Ontario Health Protection and Promotion Act (HPPA), healthcare institutions (hospitals, long-term care homes and retirement homes) are required to monitor staff and...
Data Dictionary
| Column | Type | Label | Description |
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| Institution Name | text | Name of the healthcare institution where the outbreak has been declared |
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| Institution Address | text | Street address of the institution |
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| Outbreak Setting | text | The type of facility, in terms of the type of healthcare provided |
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| Type of Outbreak | text | The mode of transmission classification description of the outbreak |
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| Causative Agent-1 | text | The first aetiological agent(s) that have been identified from one or more outbreak-related cases, when an agent is confirmed. |
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| Causative Agent-2 | text | The second aetiological agent(s) that have been identified from one or more outbreak-related cases, when an agent is confirmed. |
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| Date Outbreak Began | date | The date the institution reports the outbreak to TPH |
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| Date Declared Over | date | In general, respiratory and enteric outbreaks are declared over if no new cases have been detected in the facility for a period of time equal to atleast one full incubation period plus one full period of communicability for the particular outbreak organism |
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| Active | text | Institutional outbreaks remain active until they have been declared over and the public health investigation is closed. |
Additional Information
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Data last updated | 5 January 2024 |
| Metadata last updated | 23 September 2025 |
| Created | 5 January 2024 |
| Format | CSV |
| License | License not specified |
| Datastore active | True |
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| Datastore cache last update | 1 month ago |
| Extract job | Airflow - files_to_datastore.py - outbreaks-in-toronto-healthcare-institutions |
| Has views | True |
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| Position | 1 |
| State | active |
| Url type | datastore |
| Extract Job | Airflow - files_to_datastore.py - outbreaks-in-toronto-healthcare-institutions |
| Is Datastore Cache File? | False |
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