MED-ECHO data compiled by the Régie de l'assurance Maladie du Québec covers hospital stays across Quebec. The summary provides the number of patient departures categorized by type of care and length of hospitalization. The data includes short-term physical and psychiatric care as well as day surgeries.
Use Cases
- Analyze hospital discharge volumes based on care type categories
- Model patient length of stay distributions based on hospitalization days
- Compare healthcare service utilization across Quebec based on regional coverage
Strengths
- Data covers the entire province of Quebec
- Compiled from hospital-reported data for short-term care and day surgeries
- Available in CSV and PDF formats
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment
- Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download
Provenance
- Source
- Régie de l'assurance Maladie du Québec
- Collection Method
- Compiled by hospitals from the MED-ECHO database
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-04-17 15:45:42.654695; freshness should be verified
- Geography
- Quebec, Canada