Database: KSH Inpatient Service (Hungary)
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Sponsor, manager or home institution: Központi Statisztikai Hivatal; Quality of Life Statistics Department.
Primary purpose: To present data on capacity and patient turnover of inpatient service.
Type of information: Number of approved and operating hospital beds and their number per ten thousand inhabitants, number of nursing days, average length of stay in hospitals, number and rate of discharged patients per hundred inhabitants, bed occupancy rate, number of patients deceased in hospitals, hospital mortality rate by medical specialization and region, and state of new-borns needing intensive treatment by birth weight. Data dictionary was not found. More metadata information [1].
Available type of information: Number of hospital beds and patient turnover in hospitals; Year; Geographic area; Period of time; Fields of specialization; Number of approved hospital beds; Number of hospital beds in operation; Number of hospital beds in operation under local government supervision; Number of discharged patients; Number of patients deceased in hospital; Nursing days; Average length of stay; Bed occupancy rate in hospitals; Average length of nursing; Full nursing time; Number of one-day care cases [2].
Source of Information: The OSAP No. 2155: Report on hospital cases, which is a transmission of administrative data collected by the National Institute of Health Insurance Fund Management.
Data level: Patient level.
Available data level: Regional and national level.
Number of Records: Unknown.
Date Range: Unknown.
Available data range: 2012 onwards.
Cancer Areas of Interest: Unknown.
Data access: Partially publicly available [3] under "Health" > "Inpatient Services". Instructions to request data for restricted content [4].
Contact information: Information [5].
