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: Data Dictionary: Statistik Austria Patient Discharge [2].

Available type of information: hospital discharges (by sex, age, year, place of residence, type of hospital sector, hospital location, length of stay, type of discharge, type of cancer, type of examination) [3].

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 [4]

Data access: partially publicly available [5] (To access the table, click in the link -> click in "STATcube - Guest Login" -> click in "Accept terms and conditions" -> select the folder "Health" -> click twice in "Hospital Discharges"). Instructions to request data for restricted content [6].

Contact Information: Information [7].