Visualized 2008–2024 CIHI data showing median wait times for Ontario's 3 most common elective surgeries:
🔵 Cataract Surgery
– 2019: 63 days → 2020: 152 days → 2024: 71 days ✅
🟡 Hip Replacement
– 2019: 77 days → 2020: 141 days → 2024: 88 days ⚠️
🔵 Knee Replacement
– 2019: 85 days → 2020: 163 days → 2024: 83 days ✅
Cataract and knee replacement have largely recovered.
Hip replacement still 14% above pre-COVID baseline.
📊 Power BI · web version in Chart.js
Data: Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI)
by Fun-Investigator7818
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Full interactive dashboard — all 10 provinces, all procedures, 2008–2024: [datascientist.ca/cihi_dashboard1.html](http://datascientist.ca/cihi_dashboard1.html)
Data: CIHI – Canadian Institute of Health Information
Tools: Power BI · Chart.js · DAX · Power Query
wild how cataract surgery bounced back so fast compared to hip replacements. maybe because cataracts are quicker procedures?
knee replacements recovering well too which is good news for aging population. still crazy to see that massive spike in 2020-2021 period – the healthcare system really took a beating during covid.