Alberta Inpatient Separations by Local Geographic Area for Fiscal Year 2013/2014

Alberta Health's dataset provides inpatient separation counts for residents of 132 local geographic areas, detailing stays within and outside their area of residence. The data covers the fiscal year 2013/2014 and measures hospital utilization based on patient discharges, deaths, or transfers. It was published by Alberta Health and Alberta Health Services in March 2015 as part of the Primary Health Care - Community Profiles report.

Use Cases

• Analyze local_area_resident separations to facilities within_local_area versus outside_local_area to assess regional healthcare self-sufficiency.
• Compare separation counts across 132 local geographic areas like Lacombe or Calgary West Bow for resource allocation planning.
• Use the inpatient separation metric, based on discharge abstracts, as a standard measure of hospital service utilization for fiscal year 2013/2014.

Strengths

• Data covers 132 distinct local geographic areas defined by Alberta Health.
• Provides a standardized measure of hospital utilization (inpatient separations) for a complete fiscal year.

Limitations

• Dataset is temporally stale, containing only data from the fiscal year 2013/2014.
• No column-level detail or sample data is available to verify specific features or granularity.

Provenance

Source

Government of Alberta | Gouvernement de l'Alberta

Collection Method

Based on hospital abstracts for inpatient care gathered at the time of patient discharge.

Time Range

Fiscal year 2013/2014

Freshness

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Geography

Alberta, Canada, segmented into 132 local geographic areas.