Database: Hospital Morbidity Survey (EMH) (Spain)

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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: 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.

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: neoplasms (C00-D49). Cancer areas of interest list [3].

Data access: partially publicly available [4]. Reports information [5]. Instructions to request data for restricted content [6].

Contact information: Information [7].