Patients Seen by a Physician in Primary Health Care as Percentage of Total Population
Identifying Attributes
Care Settings
Country
Publishing Organisation
Type of Quality Indicator
IOM Quality Dimension
Setting-Specific Domain
Defining Attributes
Definition
The indicator gives the patients seen by a physician in outpatient primary health care. The indicator gives the number of patients seen by a physician during the year in health-centre prenatal clinics, child health clinics and family planning clinics, in health-centre school health care and student health care, as well as in home-nursing, mental health and other outpatient care settings (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
Total population times 100.
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
Collection and Reporting Attributes
Type of Data Collection
Data Collection Methods
Primary health care (THL)