Database: Hospital Morbidity Database (Portugal)

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Primary purpose: Collect and make available information regarding the use of resources related to inpatient care. Click here to learn more.

Sponsor, manager or home institution: Serviço Nacional de Saúde (SNS) and Administração Central do Sistema de saúde (ACSS).

Type of information: Data dictionary: Hospital Morbidity Database.

Available type of information: number of patients, Number of outpatients, equivalent patients, and average delay for medical procedures considering the following variables: Hospitalization, Surgical hospitalization, medical procedures, Medical ICU, Outpatient, Surgical Outpatient, % Outpatient Surgical/Total Scheduled Surgical, and Medical Outpatient.

Source of information: Portugal's hospitals.

Data level: patient level.

Available data level: hospital level.

Number of records: unknown.

Date range: 1993 onwards (restricted access); 2011-2014 (open access).

Cancer areas of interest: C00-D48: All neoplasms. See the full list of cancer types: Hospital Morbidity Data Base.

Data access: partially publicly available. Click here to access. Instructions to request data for restricted content click here to access.

Contact information: Click here to access.