Database: Statistik Austria Patient Discharge (Austria)

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Sponsor, manager or home institution: Statistik Austria.

Primary purpose: Provide open access information about patient discharge.

Type of information: Age in 5-year groups STAT; Age in 5 year groups; Diagnosis ICD-9 4-digit code; Diagnosis ICD-10 4-digit; Diagnosis ISHMT; Diagnosis chapter; Dismissal type; Fund affiliation; Function code 1st-2nd digit; Function code 3rd-4th digit; Function code 5th-6th digit; Function code 3rd-6th digit; Non-profit; Gender; Gender nonbinary; Hospital; MEL (codes up to 2008); MEL (codes from 2009); MEL subchapters; MEL chapter; MEL operative/non-operative; Public law; PSY_SOM; Entity Type; Hospital location; Citizenship political; Cause of injury; Supply region; Utility sector; Residential state; Residence code; Residential district; State of residence [2].

Available type of information: hospital discharges, cancer incidence, cancer mortality, cancer prevalence and the survival probability of cancer patients.

Source of Information: Legal entities of hospitals with in-patient admissions are obliged to report.

Data level: patient level.

Available data level: national level and regional level.

Number of Records: Unknown.

Date Range: 1989 onwards.

Cancer Areas of Interest: Statistik Austria Patient Discharge

Data access: Partially publicly available [3]. Instructions to request data for restricted content [hasDataAccessInstructions::https://www.statistik.at/services/tools/services/amdc-mikrodaten-fuer-die-wissenschaft/mikrodatennutzung-fragen-und-antworten].

Contact Information: Information [4].