Institute for Health and Welfare (THL): Specialised healthcare
Institute for Health and Welfare (THL): Primary health care
Keywords
day surgery
Classifications
Geographical classification
Municipality, sub-region, region, area for the regional state administrative agency, major region, Mainland Finland/Åland, hospital district, university hospital special responsibility area, whole country
Classification by sex
male, female, combined
Age classification
Ages 65-74
ICD-10
International Classification of Diseases
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Data content
The indicator gives the care periods during the year in outpatient surgery for all patients who have received day surgery (per 1000 inhabitants). The population figures refer to mean population.
A period of care is classified as day surgery if its service activity in the Care Register is day surgery, that is, a day surgery procedure was performed on the patient based on a prior agreement.
Day surgery does not include procedures performed out-of-hours as an emergency case.
Interpretation
Restrictions
Additional information
THL: Care Register for Social Welfare and Health Care; statistics on institutional care
Jouni Rasilainen (firstname.lastname@thl.fi)
Simo Pelanteri (firstname.lastname@thl.fi)
Legislation
Recommendations
Remarks
Data collection has been extended to cover the whole time series for 2012.
Treatment periods in the service activity of day surgery includes periods where the primary procedure is between A-R,
but where the third character is not 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 0.
