Outpatient Physician Visits in Primary Health Care per 1000 Inhabitants
Identifying Attributes
Care Settings
Country
Publishing Organisation
Type of Quality Indicator
IOM Quality Dimension
Setting-Specific Domain
Defining Attributes
Definition
The indicator gives the outpatient physician visits in primary health care include physician visits to health- centre prenatal clinics, child health clinics and family planning clinics, to health-centre school health care, student health care as well as home-nursing and mental health visits and other outpatient visits (various consultation visits, health-examination and screening visits, and visits associated with the determination of a person's state of health, such as medical certificates).
Numerator
Number of outpatient physician visits in various settings, including e-service appointments.
Denominator
Population figure divided by 1000 inhabitants.
Exclusions
Use of Risk Adjustment
Risk Adjustments
None
Stratifications
Gender total; 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
Collection and Reporting Attributes
Type of Data Collection
Data Collection Methods
Primary health care (THL)