Database: Health Statistics Database for Inpatient Healthcare Data (Latvia)

Sponsor, manager or home institution: Slimību Profilakses un Kontroles Centrs (SPKC); Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (CDPC).

Primary purpose: Provide information about inpatient health care.

Available type of information: Number of treated patients, the proportion of treated patients, length of stay, number of days spent by discharged patients (per 1000 inhabitants), the average duration of treatment, patient mortality; filtered by diagnosis and age group. Other indicators include the number of beds, types of beds, number of adult and children oncology beds used in the year, the number of admitted patients, the number of patients transferred within the hospital to and from other departments, and the number of discharged patients.

Source of Information: Information is submitted by medical institutions using the form available in Appendix 7 of this document [1].

Data level: aggregated data.

Available data level: national level and regional level.

Number of Records: Not applicable.

Date Range: 2011 onwards.

Cancer Areas of Interest: neoplasms (C00-D48).

Data access: partially publicly available [2]. Instructions to request data for restricted content [3].

Contact information: Information [4].