Database: Hospital Discharge Database (SDO) (Italy): Difference between revisions

Revision as of 15:04, 27 November 2023

Primary Purpose: Store administrative information about hospital discharges in all national public or private hospitals.

Sponsor, manager or home institution: Ministry of Health.

Type of information: Patient's personal characteristics (including age, sex, residence, level of education), characteristics of the hospitalization (for example institution and discharge discipline, hospitalization regime, method of discharge, booking date, priority class of hospitalization) and clinical features (e.g. main diagnosis, concomitant diagnoses, diagnostic or therapeutic procedures). Data Dictionary: Hospital Discharge Database (SDO).

Available type of information: Claims data by region, national and regional claims by DRG, MDC, medical procedures, as well as various data about the length of stay for all these categories, among other information.

Source of Information: Information is sent to the SDO via form by public and private healthcare providers.

Data level: patient level.

Available data level: regional level and national level.

Number of Records: 98.9% of institutions covered as of 2020.

Date Range: 2001 onwards.

Cancer Areas of Interest: Hospital Discharge Database (SDO).

Data access: partially publicly available [1]. Instructions to request data for restricted content [2].

Contact information: Information [3].

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 '''Date Range:''' [[dataStart::2001]] [[dataEnd::onwards]].
-'''Cancer Areas of Interest:''' [[Cancer Areas of Interest: Hospital Discharge Database (SDO)|Hospital Discharge Database (SDO)]]Malignant bladder tumors (C67); Malignant breast tumors (C50);
+'''Cancer Areas of Interest:''' [[Cancer Areas of Interest: Hospital Discharge Database (SDO)|Hospital Discharge Database (SDO)]].
-Secondary malignant tumors: C77-C79 (These codes represent secondary and unspecified malignant neoplasms)
-Other and unspecified benign tumors: D48 (This is the code for neoplasms of uncertain or unknown behavior)
-Malignant tumors of the bronchi and lungs: C34
-Tumors of unspecified or uncertain behavior: D48 (This code can be used for tumors with uncertain or unspecified behavior)
-Malignant colon tumors: C18-C20 (These codes represent malignant neoplasms of the colon)
 '''Data access:''' [[dataAvailability::partially publicly available]] [https://www.salute.gov.it/portale/temi/p2_6.jsp?lingua=italiano&id=1237&area=ricoveriOspedalieri&menu=vuoto]. Instructions to request data for restricted content [[hasDataAccessInstructions::[https://www.salute.gov.it/portale/ministro/p4_10.jsp?lingua=italiano&label=trasparenza]]].
 '''Contact information:''' Information [https://www.salute.gov.it/portale/ministro/p4_10.jsp?lingua=italiano&label=trasparenza].