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, cancer incidence (by sex, place of residence, age, tumor staging, and tumor histology), 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 [3]

Data access: Partially publicly available [4]. Instructions to request data for restricted content [5].

Contact Information: Information [6].