Database: Hospital Statistics (Germany)

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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.

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