Hospital Inpatient Discharges (per 100 000 Population)
Identifying Attributes
Care Settings
Country
Publishing Organisation
Type of Quality Indicator
IOM Quality Dimension
Domain
Defining Attributes
Definition
Hospital inpatient discharges by Alzheimer's disease (per 100 000 population). An inpatient discharge is the release of a patient who was formally admitted into a hospital for treatment and/or care and who stayed for a minimum of one night.
Numerator
Number of hospital inpatient discharges by Alzheimer's disease, multiply 100 000
Denominator
Number of population
Exclusions
1) Transfers to other care units within the same hospital, 2)Day cases, 3) Outpatient cases (including emergency department visits)". Data reported in OECD Health Statistics refer to inpatient discharges only. However, some countries do include day cases (which is patient who was formally admitted in a hospital for receiving planned medical and paramedical services, and who was discharged on the same day).
Use of Risk Adjustment
Risk Adjustments
None
Stratifications
Sex
Collection and Reporting Attributes
Type of Data Collection
Data Collection Methods
Data provided by individual countries
Frequency of Data Collection
Frequency of Data Collection in Days
Reporting Methods
Data available on stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx?DataSetCode=HEALTH_STAT