Diagnosis Treatment Combination register - hospitals

Summary

Strengths: This registry includes all short-stay and long-stay hospitals and semi-private hospitals, as well as outpatient care. Weaknesses: Diagnoses are not registered according to international classification.

Type of data

Data Source
Registry

Type of Study
Crosssection regular

Data gathering method
Registries

Access to data

Conditions of access
Data cannot be downloaded directly.

Type of available data (e.g. anonymised microdata, aggregated tables, etc.)
Anonymised microdata

Formats available
SPSS (default)

Coverage

Coverage Years of collection, reference years, and sample sizes
Data was collected in 2008 using an integral observation of the Dutch population.

First year of collection
2008

Stratification if applicable
Not applicable

Base used for sampling

Geographical coverage and breakdowns
Patients of all hospitals and semi-private hospitals that perform care covered by basic health insurance

Age range
No age restrictions

Statistical representativeness
Other, please specify

Coverage of main and cross-cutting topics
Detailed study of: Hospital treatments, diagnosis, treatments, costs.

Linkage

Standardisation

Possibility of linkage among databases
Linkage will be possible in the future

Data quality

Entry errors if applicable
Completeness can vary per hospital

Breaks
Change in product structure in 2012

Consistency of terminology or coding used during collection
In the course of years, there have been many small changes in the system and a major change in 2012.

Governance

Contact information
Department of Health and Health Care
Statistics Netherlands
Henri Faasdreef 312
2492 JP Den Haag Netherlands Phone: Infoservice: 003188 570 70 70
Email: info(at)cbs.nl
Url:

Timeliness, transparency
Data has not been published yet.