Database: Statistik Austria Patient Discharge (Austria)

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Type of Database: administrative/claims data

Primary purpose: Provide open access information about patient discharge. Click here to learn more.

Sponsor, manager or home institution: Statistik Austria.

Type of information: cross-sectional. age, sex, hospital discharges, type of patient discharge, hospital location, diagnosis, place of residence, type of medical activity and length of stay. Data Dictionary: Statistik Austria Patient Discharge. Click here to learn more.

Available type of information: hospital discharges (by sex, age, year, place of residence, type of medical activity (hospital sector), hospital location, length of stay, type of patient discharge, diagnosis, medical procedures). Click here to learn more.

Source of information: Legal entities of hospitals with in-patient admissions are obliged to report.

Data level: patient level.

Available data level: regional level and national level.

Number of records: unknown.

Date range: 1989 onwards.

Cancer areas of interest: C00-D48: All neoplasms. Cancer Areas of Interest: Statistik Austria Patient Discharge. Click here to learn more.

Data access: partially publicly available: Click here to access (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"). Data can be downloaded in the formats CSV, XLSX, TXD and ZIP. Data has access costs. Instructions to request data for restricted content: Click here to learn more.

Contact information: Click here to learn more.