Database: GUS Population Per Bed in Hospitals (Poland)

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Sponsor, manager or home institution: Główny Urząd Statystyczny.

Primary purpose: To comprehensively analyze hospitalization data to understand treatment reasons, procedures, and durations for all patients.

Type of information: Hospitalized, in sections: causes of diseases; Hospitalization rates by: gender, age groups, macroregions, and voivodships, according to diagnosis; Hospitalized in psychiatric entities conducting medical activity, by type of facility. More metadata information [1], [2].

Available type of information: number of beds in general hospitals, beds in general hospitals per 10,000 people population, types of beds, beds in cardiology wards per 10,000 people population, beds in cardiac surgery wards per 10,000 people population, beds in oncology wards per 10,000 people population, beds in psychiatric wards per 10,000 people population, beds in wards for chronically ill patients per 10,000 population, beds in psychiatric hospitals, beds in psychiatric hospitals per 10,000 people population.

Source of Information: Forms filled by multiple institutions [3].

Data level: patient level.

Available data level: regional level and national level.

Number of Records: unknown.

Date Range: 2005-2021.

Cancer Areas of Interest: neoplasms (C00-D48).

Data access: partially publicly available [4]. Instructions to request data for restricted content [5].

Contact information: Information [6].