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About the statistics
Definitions
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Name and topic
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Name: Patient statistics
Topic: Health
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Responsible division
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Division for Health, care and social statistics
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Definitions of the main concepts and variables
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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.
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Standard classifications
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Gender : http://www.ssb.no/a/metadata/conceptvariable/vardok/112/nb
ICD-10: https://volven.no/produkt.asp?id=288799&catID=3&subID=8