Database: Hospital Morbidity Survey (EMH) (Spain)

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Type of database: administrative/claims data.

Primary purpose: To determine the geographic distribution of morbidity attended in hospitals according to the main diagnosis associated with average hospital stay and hospital discharge.

Sponsor, manager or home institution: Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE).

Type of information: longitudinal. hospital discharges, length of stay, diagnosis, type of hospital admission, and province of hospitalization; region, year, number of patients, age, sex and place of residence. Click here to learn more.

Available type of information: Available variables are the number of hospital discharges and hospital length of stay, Main diagnosis (including cancer); reason for discharge and province of hospitalization; age; sex, and place of residence.

Source of information: Hospital's patient register, files, and surveys. Click here to learn more.

Data level: patient level.

Available data level: regional level.

Number of Records: Covers 90% of the hospitals and 98% of the discharges in Spain.

Date range: 1978 onwards (restricted) and 1997 onwards (publicly available).

Cancer Areas of Interest: C00-D48: All neoplasms. Click here to learn more.

Data access: partially publicly available. Click here to access. For reports information click here to access. Data can be downloaded in the formats XLSX; CSV and PDF. Data has access costs. Data requires a grant proposal to be accessed. Instructions to request data for restricted content click here to access.

Contact information: Click here to access.

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