Hospital Mortality Records from Colombia with Cause and Location Data

Colombian mortality records from the Susana López de Valencia E.S.E. Hospital. The dataset includes columns for death location, social security regime, primary diagnosis, municipality, and manner of death. It was published via the datos.gov.co portal and was last updated on 2026-05-18.

Use Cases

• Analyze mortality trends by municipality and year using Municipio Defunción and Año.
• Study correlations between social security coverage and cause of death using Régimen Seguridad Social and Diagnóstico A.
• Profile demographic patterns in hospital deaths using Sexo and Edad Fallecido.
• Classify types of death (e.g., natural, violent) by area using Tipo Defunción and Área Defunción.

Strengths

• Includes 11 distinct columns covering demographic, administrative, and medical variables.
• 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

Hospital Susana López de Valencia E.S.E., published via www.datos.gov.co.

Collection Method

Hospital administrative registry.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-18 19:04:10; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Colombia, likely focused on the hospital's service area, indicated by Municipio Defunción.