Reports
Explore BORN Ontario reports for data and insights on maternal and child health. Discover findings that inform care, support quality improvement, and guide decision-making across Ontario.
Out-of-Scope Births in Ontario: A Provincial Analysis to Inform System-Level Change
Ensuring that very preterm infants are born in hospitals equipped to meet their specialized care needs is an important component of a coordinated perinatal system. This report analyzes births that occurred outside the recommended level of neonatal care in Ontario, examining provincial trends, regional variation, and outcomes over more than a decade.
A Decade and Beyond: Perinatal Health in Ontario Report 2012–2024
This report is a call to action. Whether you are a clinician, policymaker, researcher, or advocate, the insights within these pages are tools — tools to drive curiosity, quality improvement, to plan and innovate, and to champion high quality equitable care and outcomes. Let this data spark conversations, inform decisions, fuel research questions, re-evaluate care models, and inspire bold steps toward better outcomes for all.
Obstetrics and Perinatal Death Review Committee (OPDRC) - Annual Report
The Obstetrics and Perinatal Death Review Committee (OPDRC) has been providing expertise to inform coroner investigations in Ontario since 1994. The committee goal is to identify individual and systemic factors affecting the health and safety of childbearing persons and newborns, make recommendations for improvements to decision-makers, as well as to inform families, professionals, institutions, and the public.
Obstetrics and Perinatal Death Review Committee (OPDRC) Substance Use Sub-committee - Final Report
Obstetrical health does not exist in a vacuum. It is recognized that systems and overall population health have an impact on the wellbeing of those who are pregnant or postpartum. On review, we have seen a significant number of deaths related to substance use, mental health concerns, socioeconomic and other systemic issues, which we hope to share in this report and future ones. The prenatal and postpartum period may have unique opportunities to prevent death and improve health and wellbeing related to these identified issues.
