Emergency Consultations at the University Hospital of Santander, Colombia

Consultas de urgencias realizadas en la E.S.E Hospital Universitario de Santander provides records of emergency room visits. The dataset includes patient demographics like EDAD (age), GENERO (gender), and location details such as MUNICIPIO DE DOMICILIO (home municipality). It was published on the Colombian open data portal www.datos.gov.co and was last updated on 2026-05-18.

Use Cases

• Analyze patient volume trends by MES DE LA CONSULTA (month) and DIA DE LA CONSULTA (day) for resource allocation.
• Profile patient demographics using EDAD (age), GENERO (gender), and CICLO DE VIDA (life cycle) for epidemiological studies.
• Map healthcare coverage by cross-referencing ASEGURADOR EAPB (insurer) with DEPARTAMENTO DE DOMICILIO (home department).
• Compare consultation types using TIPO DE CONSULTA across different REGIMEN (healthcare regime) categories.

Strengths

• Includes 15 distinct columns covering demographic, administrative, and temporal dimensions of emergency care.
• Data is available in multiple machine-readable formats including CSV, JSON, XML, and RDF.

Limitations

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

Provenance

Source

www.datos.gov.co

Time Range

Coverage implied by ANO DE LA CONSULTA (year), MES DE LA CONSULTA (month), and DIA DE LA CONSULTA (day) columns.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-18 19:08:03; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Colombia, specifically the Santander department, as indicated by hospital location and MUNICIPIO DE DOMICILIO (home municipality) column.