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
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
Data Attributes
Type of Data Collection
Data Collection Methods
Primary health care (THL)