The percentage of patients aged 18 or older, treated and discharged in emergency care (specialised healthcare emergency care and joined emergency services for primary health care) who returned to emergency services within 48 hours, % of all patients of a similar age discharged from emergency services. All times when a person has visited the emergency room and returned within 48 hours are taken into account in the calculation.

Patients aged 18 or older, treated and discharged in emergency care (specialised healthcare emergency care and joined emergency services for primary health care) who returned to emergency services within 48 hours.

All patients of a similar age discharged from emergency services.

Specialised health care statistics based on care notifications submitted by health care units and retrieved on the basis of the unique personal identity number. Care notifications contain data on service provider and patient's municipality of residence as well as information on admission, treatment, procedures and discharge. For psychiatric patients, the data also include additional data on psychiatric specialties, including data on drug therapies, coercive measures and psychiatric evaluations. Also, a count is taken of patients in hospital wards on the last day of the year. The National Institute for Health and Welfare collects care notifications (Hilmo data) from health service providers concerning concluded periods of inpatient health care and outpatient visits. The statistics on specialised health care include data on all municipalities, joint municipal authorities, state hospitals and largest private hospitals.

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