Emergency admissions for acute conditions that should not usually require hospital admissi

Sep-17 version of directly age and sex standardized admission rates for emergency admissions for acute conditions that should not usually require hospital admission, per 100,000 registered patients, with 95% confidence intervals. The dataset is provided by the Government Digital Service and is available in EXCEL XLS and CSV formats under an Open Government Licence.

Use Cases

• Benchmarking healthcare performance based on standardized admission rates.
• Analyzing trends in potentially avoidable emergency care based on age and sex-adjusted metrics.
• Modeling confidence intervals for public health indicators based on the provided statistical measures.

Strengths

• Data is directly age and sex standardized, allowing for population-adjusted comparisons.
• Includes 95% confidence intervals for the admission rates.
• Available under the permissive Open Government Licence.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Provenance

Source

Government Digital Service

Collection Method

Likely compiled from national healthcare administrative records.

Time Range

Data reflects the Sep-17 version; temporal coverage of the underlying data is unspecified.

Freshness

Current version updated Sep-17; next version due Dec-17.

Geography

Coverage is unspecified but likely relates to a jurisdiction served by the eu_open_data platform.