Methodological datasheet: Hospital discharges of the digestive system per 100,000 inhabitants. Males

Identification

Description.

Hospital discharges of the digestive system per 100,000 inhabitants. Males

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 of patients hospitalised for digestive system diseases / 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, through hospital highs.

Diseases of the digestive system are among the main causes of hospital admission in the EU-27, as well as in the Basque Country.

Given the large number and variety of diseases, they are grouped to a certain degree of aggregation. It is therefore usual and standard to refer to large diagnostic groups (or pathologies) when referring to hospital morbidity, which include digestive system diseases.

Sphere

Population:

Acute hospitals, half long stay and public and private psychiatric

Geographical Sphere:

Basque Country

Time period:

Annual

Concepts and Definitions

A hospital discharge is called at the close (by healing or improvement, transfer to another facility, death and voluntary) of an episode attended in the hospitalization area or surgical day hospital. This indicator is comparable and includes cases of hospitalized patients with a minimum stay of 1 night or more.

Healthy newborn sunborns do not produce a discharge, as only the mother is discharged in the birthing process. Only if they present any pathology are counted as an income and a discharge.

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

Numerator:

Total hospital highs recorded in acute hospitals, half long stay and psychiatric hospitals for hospitalized patients for digestive system diseases (for at least 1 night and over 24 hours) 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.

Although healthy newborns are also included, these have been excluded "All causes of diseases (A00-Z99) excluding V00-Y98 and Z38" for comparison with Eustat and INE data.

Codes and nomenclatures

The ICD (International Classification of Diseases) is used to harmonize the data regarding the health status that allows international and national comparisons to be performed. This indicator measures the number of discharges coming under the different diagnosis chapters established in ICD 10th revision (International Shortlist for Hospital Morbidity Tabulation, ISHMT).

Digestive system diseases appear under codes k00-k93 in the ICD-10.

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 (Diseases of the digestive system), in-patients, per 100 000 inhabitants