Methodological datasheet: Hospital discharges per 100,000 inhabitants. Females

Identification

Description.

Hospital discharges per 100,000 inhabitants. Females

Description and source 1 operation code.

Hospital Morbidity Statistics. (030580 Basque Statistics Plan)

Description and source 2 operation code.

Population Update 010142

Responsable entity.

Eustat

Availability.

Year +1

Secondary sources

Hospital Morbidity Statistics. INE

Indicator formula.

No of hospital discharges / Population * 100,000

Objectives

To establish the hospital morbidity rate of and the resources consumed by the population treated in the hospitals of the Basque Country, as a means for epidemiological planning, assessing and studies.

The number of hospital discharges is the measurement unit of hospital activity. The discharge indicator is more commonly used than the admission indicator, as hospital reports are based on the information contained in the discharge procedure.

Sphere

Population:

Public and private acute-care and medium- and long-stay hospitals

Geographical Sphere:

Basque Country

Time period:

Annual

Concepts and Definitions

Hospital discharge (hospital episode between the admission and the discharge of the patient from hospital) for in-patients (hospitalised for at least 1 night or over 24 hours) in the private and public acute-care and medium/long-stay hospitals throughout the year. This information is provided by gender.

The indicator is obtained as a quotient and expressed per hundred thousand inhabitants.

Numerator:

Average of the hospital discharges of patients hospitalised (for at least 1 night and over 24 hours) recorded in acute-care and medium-long term hospitals during one year.

Denominator:

Estimated Population at mid-year * 100,000

- Hospital Discharge (Eurostat). A hospital discharge is the formal release of a patient from hospital after a procedure or course of treatment. A discharge occurs anytime a patient leaves as his treatment has ended, he signs out against medical advice, transfers to another hospital care institution or because of death. Both in-patients (admitted for a minimum of 1 night or over 24 hours) and day cases are included. Healthy new-borns are also included. Transfers to another department within the same institution are not included. This indicator is calculated for in patients cases that have spent at least 1 night or over 24 hours in hospital.

- Hospital Discharge (Eustat). Hospital discharge refers to the finalisation (due to the patient being cured or improving, transferred to another centre, death or voluntary release) of an episode involving the patient being hospitalised or receiving care in a surgical day hospital. Only the cases of in-patients with a minimum stay of 1 night or more are included in order to make this indicator comparable.

Codes and nomenclatures

Not applicable

Quality

The data that are incorporated regarding Spain come from the INE (Hospital Morbidity Survey).

The data regarding hospital discharges comes from administrative sources and therefore reflect the specific organisation of the health system of each country. The data cannot therefore always be comparable. Specifically, the international comparison regarding this variable must be performed with caution, as differences can exist regarding whether or not day-hospital patients or patients that are transferred from one hospital department to another are included.

The sources by each country should therefore be consulted:

Health care resources (hlth_res)

Further Information

The EUROSTAT data are available in the Population and social conditions Health folder, “Health care activities”: “Hospital discharges” sub-folder, “Hospital discharges by diagnosis, in-patients, per 100 000 inhabitants” table at:

Hospital discharges by diagnosis, in-patients, per 100 000 inhabitants