Inpatient health care: medical procedures

Medical procedures
2021
4 256 465
Gone up +6.5 % compared to 2020
Surgeries
2021
1 161 787
Gone up +5.8 % compared to 2020

The hospital discharge statistics contain stay-related, patient-related and medical reporting data on inpatient hospital stays, including information on the medical procedures performed as inpatient (surgical interventions as well as non-surgical treatments and examinations).

On the basis of the Federal Act on Documentation in the Health Care Sector, medical procedures have been recorded in hospitals since 1997; they are coded on the basis of the DRG service catalogue (“procedure-oriented hospital financing“ on the basis of diagnosis-related groups), which was converted to a new coding system in 2009. The single micro-data records of the statistics refer to single service codes and also contain patient- and hospital-related information.

S: STATISTICS AUSTRIA, Statistics of Hospital Discharges based on data from the Federal Ministry of Social Affairs, Health, Care and Consumer Protection. Compiled on 15 November 2022. – Number of medical services provided during inpatient hospital stays (reference to discharges during the year, including deaths). – The coding and grouping of medical services is carried out in accordance with the DRG system of procedure-oriented hospital financing on the basis of diagnosis-related groups (DRG).

S: STATISTICS AUSTRIA, Statistics of Hospital Discharges based on data from the Federal Ministry of Social Affairs, Health, Care and Consumer Protection. Compiled on 15 November 2022. – Number of medical services provided during inpatient hospital stays (reference to discharges during the year, including deaths). – The coding and grouping of medical services is carried out in accordance with the DRG system of procedure-oriented hospital financing on the basis of diagnosis-related groups (DRG).

S: STATISTICS AUSTRIA, Statistics of Hospital Discharges based on data from the Federal Ministry of Social Affairs, Health, Care and Consumer Protection. Compiled on 15 November 2022. – Number of medical services provided during inpatient hospital stays (reference to discharges during the year, including deaths). – The coding and grouping of medical services is carried out in accordance with the DRG system of procedure-oriented hospital financing on the basis of diagnosis-related groups (DRG).

S: STATISTICS AUSTRIA, Statistics of Hospital Discharges based on data from the Federal Ministry of Social Affairs, Health, Care and Consumer Protection. Compiled on 15 November 2022. – Number of medical services provided during inpatient hospital stays (reference to discharges during the year, including deaths). – The coding and grouping of medical services is carried out in accordance with the DRG system of procedure-oriented hospital financing on the basis of diagnosis-related groups (DRG).

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