Emergency Department Visits in Primary Health Care (Including Joint Emergency Department) per 1,000 Inhabitants
Identifying Attributes
Care Settings
Country
Publishing Organisation
Type of Quality Indicator
IOM Quality Dimension
Domain
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
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
Data Collection Methods
Sotkanet