Emergency Department Visits in Primary Health Care (Including Joint Emergency Department) per 1,000 Inhabitants

Identifying Attributes

Care Settings
Primary Care
Country
Finland
Publishing Organisation
Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL)
Type of Quality Indicator
Outcome
IOM Quality Dimension
Effectiveness
Domain
Hospitalisations

Defining Attributes

Definition

The indicator represents the number of visits to primary health care emergency services per 1,000 residents. The indicator includes the effects indicated as urgent in the Avohilmo data collection (the urgency categories of treatment are 1 = emergency services, or V = immediate), and the visits to joined emergency services reported on in Hilmo data collection through the specialised healthcare data system to the specialised field of general medicine (98 or acute = 15Y) and where the service type is 91 (emergency).

Numerator

Number of primary health care emergency services

Denominator

The indicator is a proportion of cases per 1000 residents.

Exclusions
Use of Risk Adjustment
No
Risk Adjustments

None

Stratifications

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/Åland, whole country

Data Attributes

Type of Data Collection
Administrative data
Data Collection Methods

Sotkanet

Frequency of Data Collection
Annually
Frequency of Data Collection in Days
365
Reporting Methods
Reporting Frequency
Annually
Reporting Frequency in Days
365
Indicator Has Recommended Targets
No

Source and Reference Attributes

Evidence Source
Link to Measurement Tools
Quality Indicator Confirmed to be Part of a Program Used to Monitor Quality and Safety of Care Among Older People at a Population-Level between 2012-2022
Yes
Assessed by the Australian Consortium for Aged Care Collaborators as Generally Containing Good Properties (Importance and Scientific Acceptability)
No
Australian Consortium for Aged Care Endorsed
No
Identified by PHARMA-Care Project
No
Upload Date
23 July 2025