Visits in Primary Health Care of Those Aged 75 or Over (Including Joint Emergency Department) per 1,000 per Population of the Same Age
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 among clients aged 75 or over to primary health care emergency services per 1,000 people in the same age group. 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 visits by people aged 75+ to primary health care emergency services.
Denominator
Population figure divided by 1000 inhabitants.
Exclusions
Use of Risk Adjustment
Risk Adjustments
None
Stratifications
Sex (male, female, combined); Age (75 years and older); 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)