Patient statistics
Updated: 14 April 2023
Next update: Not yet determined
| 2022 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Both sexes | Females | Males | |
| Patients at general hospital, in total | 2 066 705 | 1 115 162 | 951 543 |
| In-patients | 515 659 | 283 787 | 231 872 |
| Patients with day cases | 275 398 | 153 160 | 122 238 |
| Out-patients | 1 915 617 | 1 035 257 | 880 360 |
| 1One person can have received treatment at more than one level of care. Only Norwegian residents are included. Source: NPR | |||
Selected tables and figures from this statistics
- Patients in general hospitals by gender and diagnoseDownload table as ...Patients in general hospitals by gender and diagnose
2022 Totals, both sexes Percentage share women Percentage share men DIAGNOSIS INFECTIOUS AND PARASITIC DISEASES 43 291 47 53 NEOPLASMS 210 106 55 45 DISEASES OF THE BLOOD AND BLOOD-FORMING ORGANS AND CERTAIN DISORDERS INVOLVING THE IMMUNE SYSTEM 27 336 53 47 ENDOCRINE, NUTRITIONAL AND METABOLIC DISEASES 147 500 54 46 DISEASES OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM 174 772 50 50 DISEASES OF THE EYE AND ADNEXA 132 295 54 46 DISEASES OF THE EAR AND MASTOID PROCESS 102 381 48 52 DISEASES OF THE CIRCULATORY SYSTEM 221 510 43 57 DISEASES OF THE RESPIRATORY SYSTEM 147 005 48 52 DISEASES OF THE DIGESTIVE SYSTEM 234 587 52 48 DISEASES OF THE SKIN AND SUBCUTANEOUS TISSUE 104 897 55 45 DISEASES OF THE MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM AND CONNECTIVE TISSUE 368 643 58 42 DISEASES OF THE GENITOURINARY SYSTEM 207 205 66 34 PREGNANCY, CHILDBIRTH AND THE PUERPERIUM 76 240 100 0 CERTAIN CONDITIONS ORIGINATING IN THE PERINATAL PERIOD 10 388 45 55 CONGENITAL MALFORMATIONS 47 487 47 53 SYMPTOMS, SIGNS AND ABNORMAL CLINICAL AND LABORATORY FINDINGS, NOT ELSEWHERE CLASSIFIED 347 172 53 47 INJURY, POISONING AND CERTAIN OTHER CONSEQUENCES OF EXTERNAL CAUSES 348 322 48 52 OTHER CAUSES AND UNSPECIFIED CAUSES 599 013 58 42 Explanation of symbolsDownload table as ...
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About the statistics
Statistics on the population's use of general hospitals; diagnoses, treatment level as inpatient stays, outpatient consultations and day treatment, distributed by geography, gender and age. Mental health care and multidisciplinary specialist substance abuse treatment are not included.
General Hospitals are hospitals that admit patients with physical disorders; as opposed to psychiatric hospitals.
In-patients: admission with an actual or planned overnight stay.
Patients with day cases: admission without an overnight stay and treatment at the out-patient clinic that is more comprehensive than an out-patient consultation.
Out-patients: short-term treatment performed in hospital.
Bed-days: is the number of days an admitted patient with in-patient stays takes up a bed.
Classification of diseases:diagnoses are encoded by ICD-10 (International Classification of Diseases). Classification ICD-10 gives information on the patient's condition, but gives little information about the treatment.
Diagnosis refers to the main condition for which the patient receives treatment.
Name: Patient statistics
Topic: Health
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Statistics on the population's use of general hospitals; diagnoses, treatment level as inpatient stays, outpatient consultations and day treatment, distributed by geography, gender and age. The statistics are compiled based on the hospitals’ reporting to the Norwegian Patient Register (NPR).
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The NPR publishes statistics based on the data from the database, https://helsedirektoratet.no/statistikk-og-analyse/statistikk-fra-norsk-pasientregister.
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The statistics cover all persons who are residents of Norway. Persons living in Norway temporarily are not included in the statistics.
The statistics cover activity in general hospitals. Mental health care and multidisciplinary specialist substance abuse treatment are not included.
The data source is the somatic hospitals’ reporting to the NPR. This health registry includes a selection of information recorded at the treatment site when patients are referred to or receive health care in specialist services. The register is owned by the Norwegian Directorate of Health.
If a patient has to stay at several departments at the same institution during the same admission, these stays are aggregated to one hospital stay. The statistics give an overview of the number of patients with at least one stay in a general hospital.
The NPR statistics include all people who have received treatment. Statistics Norway does not include foreign residents in these statistics. Statistics Norway excluded some units in the years before 2015, and for these years the population is not comparable to that used by the NPR.
Data are subjected to controls and an internal revision by the NPR.
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Figures cannot be published where an individual’s identity could be revealed. The statistics follow Statistics Norway’s general rules on confidentiality.
The statistics are comparable to statistics published by the NPR, and statistics on the specialist health service are supplementary.
Only persons resident in Norway and registered with a valid personal identification number are included in the statistics. There is assumed to be a degree of misreporting of diagnoses.
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