MED-ECHO data compiled by the Régie de l'assurance Maladie du Québec covers hospital stays across Quebec. The table provides information on departures, stays, deaths, surgeries, and emergency admissions by diagnosis category group for general and specialized care centers. It includes short-term physical and psychiatric care as well as day surgery data.
Use Cases
- Analyze hospital discharge patterns based on diagnosis category groups.
- Study mortality rates and autopsy frequencies within different patient categories.
- Evaluate surgical activity volumes across hospital centers.
- Assess emergency department admission percentages for different beneficiary groups.
- Compare patient stay durations and age group distributions for various diagnoses.
Strengths
- Data covers the entire province of Quebec.
- Compiled from the official MED-ECHO database by the Régie de l'assurance Maladie du Québec.
- Includes multiple metrics: departures, stays, deaths, surgeries, and emergency admissions.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to open_canada, being limited to Quebec.
Provenance
- Source
- Régie de l'assurance Maladie du Québec
- Collection Method
- Compiled by hospitals from MED-ECHO database.
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-04-17 15:45:52.568417; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- Quebec, Canada