Age- and Sex-Standardised Index for Periods of Care for Patients in Hospital Care
Identifying Attributes
Care Settings
Country
Publishing Organisation
Type of Quality Indicator
IOM Quality Dimension
Domain
Defining Attributes
Definition
Index calculated for all Finnish municipalities to describe the number of periods of care for patients in hospital care in relation to the average for the country's total population (=100).
Numerator
Denominator
Exclusions
Use of Risk Adjustment
Risk Adjustments
Age- and sex-standardised
Stratifications
Municipality, sub-region, region, hospital district, area for the regional state administrative agency, university hospital special responsibility area, major region, Mainland Finland/Åland, whole country
Collection and Reporting Attributes
Type of Data Collection
Data Collection Methods
Specialised health care (THL) - The statistics on specialised health care are 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. Primary health care (THL) - The statistics on primary health care include data on primary health care activities derived from the Care Registers for Social Welfare and Health Care. The statistics contain data on service providers, population's service use, access to services, population's health problems, epidemic development, client's/patient's municipality of residence and gender, visits by age group, outpatient visits by service type, reasons for visit, procedures and follow-up care, medication and vaccinations as well as check-ups to promote the health of children, young people and pregnant women. Regarding patients on health centre wards, the statistics also contain data on the number of care days and periods of care as well as on the appropriate care place of patients. Indicator data on outpatient visits in primary health care was retrieved from the AvoHILMO care register a number of days before updating the indicator in Sotkanet.
Frequency of Data Collection
Frequency of Data Collection in Days
Reporting Methods
Statistical reports on health services include a quality report and descriptions of the special features of the statistics.