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Type of database: administrative/claims data.
Primary purpose: To provide comprehensive data for health policy planning and scientific analysis, detailing organizational units, personnel, equipment, and services in hospitals to inform decisions and studies regarding healthcare infrastructure and disease trends.
Sponsor, manager or home institution: Forschungsdatenzentren der Statistischen Ämter des Bundes und der Länder (FDZ).
Type of information: longitudinal. Variables include, but are not limited to, hospital identification, bed capacity, medical staff, medical equipment, costs (personnel, material, operational), funding sources, specialized departments (e.g., geriatrics, oncology), rehabilitation facilities, training positions, employment details (full-time, part-time, contract type), patient demographics (age, sex, place of residence), patient admissions and discharges, regulatory compliance, and administrative data. Click here to learn more.
Available type of information: For diagnosis of hospital patients: age groups, federal states, sex, discharged patients, average length of stay of patients, patients who died, average length of stay of patients who died, newborns treated in the month of birth, calculation and occupancy days of patients, calculation and occupancy days of the deceased patients, specialist departments, place of residence of the patient, ICD-10 (1-digit) main diagnosis, ICD-10 (2-digit) main diagnosis, ICD-10 (3-digit) main diagnosis, ICD-10 (position Q) primary diagnosis, year.
For Diagnoses of preventive or rehabilitation patients: Age groups, gender, discharged patients, average length of stay of patients, place of residence of the patient, ICD-10 (1-digit) main diagnosis, ICD-10 (2-digit) main diagnosis, ICD-10 (3-digit) main diagnosis, year.
Source of Information: An annual survey sent to every hospital in Germany.
Data level: patient level.
Available data level: national level.
Number of records: unknown.
Date range: 1993 onwards.
Cancer areas of interest: C00-D48: All neoplasms. Click here to learn more.
Data access: partially publicly available. There is publicly available data based on the databases' microdata. Diagnoses of hospital patients: Click here to access. Data can be downloaded in the formats XLSX; CSV; FLAT; XML and PDF. Data requires a grant proposal to be accessed. Diagnoses of preventive or rehabilitation patients: click here to access. Instructions to request data for restricted content click here to access.
Contact information: Click here to access.
Mouth
Throat
Oropharynx
Nasopharynx
Hypopharynx
Larynx
Salivary glands
Lips
Tonsils
base of tongue
Voice box
Esophagus
Stomach
Small intestine
Large intestine
Colon
Rectum
Anus
Liver
Gallbladder
Bile ducts
Pancreas
Lung
Trachea
Bronchi
Pleura
Mediastinum
Bone
Cartilage
Osteosarcoma
Ewings sarcoma
Skin
Melanoma
Scalp
Lips
Hands
Feet
Muscle
Fat
Tendon
Ligament
Blood vessels
Connective tissue
Sarcoma
Angiosarcoma
Liposarcoma
Lobular
Breast
Nipple
Areola
Ductal
Vulva
Vagina
Cervix
Uterus
Ovary
Fallopian tubes
Endometrium
Prostate
Testicles
Penis
Kidney
Ureter
Bladder
Urethra
Eye
Brain
Spinal cord
Thyroid gland
Parathyroid
Adrenal glands
Pituitary gland
Pancreas
Thymus gland
Peritoneum
Pericardium
Retroperitoneum
Mesothelium
Blood
Bone marrow
Lymph nodes
Spleen
Leukemia
databaseType::administrative/claims data
dataOwner::Forschungsdatenzentren der Statistischen Ämter des Bundes und der Länder (FDZ)
databaseStructure::longitudinal
hasVariable::hospital location|hospital identification
hasVariable::number of beds|bed capacity
hasVariable::number of medical staff|medical staff
hasVariable::devices|medical equipment
hasVariable::healthcare costs|costs
hasVariable::type of medical activity|employment details
hasVariable::age
hasVariable::sex
hasVariable::place of residence
hasVariable::hospital discharges|patient admissions and discharges
availableVariable::diagnosis
availableVariable::age
availableVariable::region|federal states
availableVariable::sex
availableVariable::type of patient|discharged patients
availableVariable::length of stay
availableVariable::number of deaths|patients who died
availableVariable::type of medical activity|specialist departments
availableVariable::place of residence
availableVariable::year
dataLevel::patient level
availableDataLevel::national level
numberRecords::unknown
dataStart::1993
dataEnd::onwards
dataAvailability::partially publicly available
hasDownloadableData::XLSX
hasDownloadableData::CSV
hasDownloadableData::FLAT
hasDownloadableData::XML
hasDownloadableData::PDF
hasGrantRequirement::Data requires a grant proposal to be accessed
isDatabase
hasCancerType::C00-D48: All neoplasms
hasCancerType::C00-C97: All cancer types
hasCancerType::C00-C14: Mouth/throat cancers
hasCancerType::C15-C26: Digestive system cancers
hasCancerType::C30-C39: Lung/chest cancers
hasCancerType::C40-C41: Bone cancers
hasCancerType::C43-C44: Skin cancers/melanoma
hasCancerType::C45-C49: Soft tissue cancer
hasCancerType::C50: Breast cancer
hasCancerType::C51-C58: Female genitalia cancers
hasCancerType::C60-C63: Male genitalia cancer
hasCancerType::C64-C68: Urinary system cancers
hasCancerType::C69-C72: Eye and brain cancer
hasCancerType::C73-C75: Thyroid and other gland cancers
hasCancerType::C76-C80: Cancers of unknown or unspecified areas
hasCancerType::C81-C96: Cancers of the blood and immune system
hasCancerType::C97-C97: Cancers in multiple locations from the start
hasCancerType::D00-D09: Early-stage cancers not yet spread
hasCancerType::D10-D36: Benign tumour
hasCancerType::D37-D48: Growths of uncertain nature
hasCancerType::unknown
