C-HOBIC - Standardized Information to Support Clinical Practice and Quality Patient Care across Canada.

Canadian Health Outcomes for Better Information and Care (C-HOBIC) is leading the collection of standardized clinical outcomes reflective of nursing practice. C-HOBIC introduces a systematic structured language for patient assessments across the health care system enabling abstraction of information into jurisdictional EHRs Thus the information is available to clinicians across the health care system. This paper provides the background to C-HOBIC with an overview of the evidence supporting the clinical outcomes; the methodology for the electronic collection and abstraction of outcomes including the implications of including nursing information on databases; and describes the approach to coding information for interoperability and comparability of clinical information across the health care system.