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Hospital Discharge Database (SDO)
Primary Purpose: Store administrative information about hospital discharges in all national public or private hospitals.
Sponsor, manager or home institution: Ministry of Health.
Type of information: Patient's personal characteristics (including age, sex, residence, level of education), characteristics of the hospitalization (for example institution and discharge discipline, hospitalization regime, method of discharge, booking date, priority class of hospitalization) and clinical features (e.g. main diagnosis, concomitant diagnoses, diagnostic or therapeutic procedures).
Source of Information:
Data level: Patient level.
Number of Records:
Date Range: 2001 onwards.
Open data access:
Information/Contact for data request:
