Morbilidad General: Patient Diagnoses from Pasto Salud E.S.E. Health Services

Registries of patient diagnoses from service-providing health institutions of the Empresa Social del Estado Pasto Salud E.S.E. The dataset includes columns for consultation code, patient sex, primary diagnosis code, healthcare provider, consultation date, age, description, and consultation name. It was last updated on 2026-05-18 19:06:43 and is hosted on the Colombian open data portal www.datos.gov.co.

Use Cases

• Analyze disease prevalence by age and sex using the Edad and Sexo columns.
• Study consultation patterns over time using the Fecha_Cons (consultation date) column.
• Categorize diagnoses by healthcare provider (IPS) using the Codigo_Dxppal and IPS columns.
• Link detailed diagnosis descriptions (Descrip) to standardized codes (Codigo_Dxppal) for clinical coding validation.

Strengths

• Includes structured clinical variables such as diagnosis codes, patient demographics, and provider information.
• Offers multiple machine-readable file formats including CSV, JSON, XML, and RDF.
• Data is sourced from official health service providers (Pasto Salud E.S.E.) via a national open data platform.

Limitations

• Row count and total dataset size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

www.datos.gov.co (Colombian open data portal), sourced from Empresa Social del Estado Pasto Salud E.S.E.

Collection Method

Administrative records from health service providers.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-18 19:06:43; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Likely the municipality of Pasto, Colombia, based on the source institution.