Outpatient Physician Visits in Primary Health Care (All Methods of Contact) per 1000 Inhabitants
Identifying Attributes
Care Settings
Country
Publishing Organisation
Type of Quality Indicator
IOM Quality Dimension
Domain
Defining Attributes
Definition
The indicator shows the number of completed outpatient physician visits in primary health care with all methods of contact per 1,000 inhabitants. The outpatient physician visits in primary health care include all physician visits in all primary health care services, including all events covered by the Avohilmo data collection without limitations to the method of contact or service type. Service type refers to, e.g. outpatient medical care, and method of contact to e.g. an appointment with a physician at the place of care or by telephone. Population proportions are calculated at THL based on the Population Statistics of Statistics Finland.
Numerator
Number of completed outpatient physician visits in primary health care with all methods of contact
Denominator
1000 inhabitants
Exclusions
Use of Risk Adjustment
Risk Adjustments
None
Stratifications
Sex (male, female, combined); location (Municipality, sub-region, region, the well-being services county, hospital district, area for the regional state administrative agency, major region, university hospital special responsibility area, Mainland Finland/
Data Attributes
Type of Data Collection
Data Collection Methods
Sotkanet