Chagas and Rare Disease Patient Records from Capresoca EPS, Colombia (2017-2025)

Colombian historical data for patients affiliated with Capresoca EPS diagnosed with Chagas disease and/or rare-orphan diseases from 2017 to February 2025. The dataset includes columns for demographic, geographic, and clinical event information. It is hosted on the Colombian open data portal, datos.gov.co, and was last updated in May 2026.

Use Cases

• Analyze geographic distribution of Chagas disease cases using cod_dpto_r, cod_mun_resi, and nmun_resi.
• Study temporal trends in disease notification by year_notificación and semana.
• Profile patient demographics and life stages using sexo_ and curso_de_vida alongside specific disease names (nom_enferm).
• Link clinical events (cod_eve, nom_evento) with diagnostic laboratory tests (prueba_lab, nombre_prueba).

Strengths

• Covers an 8-year time range from 2017 to February 2025.
• Includes 14 distinct columns for demographic, geographic, clinical, and diagnostic data.
• Hosted on a national open data platform (datos.gov.co) with multiple machine-readable formats (CSV, JSON, XML, RDF).

Limitations

• Row count and total dataset size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

Capresoca EPS, via datos.gov.co.

Collection Method

Likely administrative records from the healthcare provider.

Time Range

2017 to February 2025.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-18 19:17:48; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Colombia, indicated by columns for country, department, and municipality codes (cod_pais_r, cod_dpto_r, cod_mun_resi).