Italian Hospital Stays and Mortality for Cystic Echinococcosis (2015-2022)

Supplying statistics on hospital stays and in-hospital mortality for patients with a primary diagnosis of Cystic Echinococcosis in Italy from 2015 to 2022. It includes quartile values (25th percentile, median, 75th percentile) for length of stay and mortality rates, segmented by patient age categories. The data is derived from hospital discharge records.

Use Cases

• Analyze the distribution of hospital stay length, using the 25th percentile, median, and 75th percentile values, across different age categories.
• Model in-hospital mortality risk for Cystic Echinococcosis patients based on age category and quartile statistics of hospital stay.
• Compare trends in mean hospital stay and mortality over the 2015-2022 time period for this neglected zoonotic disease.
• Assess the burden of hospitalised CE cases by calculating direct hospital costs using length of stay quartiles and mortality data.

Strengths

• Covers an 8-year time period (2015-2022) for longitudinal analysis.
• Provides specific statistical measures (quartiles, median) for hospital stay length and mortality.
• Data is sourced from robust national reporting of hospital discharge records.
• Includes segmentation by age categories for cohort-specific insights.

Limitations

• The dataset is very small at 5.5 KB, indicating highly aggregated summary statistics rather than patient-level records.
• The specific number of rows and columns is unknown, limiting understanding of the data's granularity.
• Focus is exclusively on Italy, limiting geographic generalizability.

Provenance

Source

Piero Bonelli via figshare.

Collection Method

Derived from hospital discharge records.

Time Range

2015 to 2022.

Freshness

Last updated in March 2026, indicating recent maintenance.

Geography

Italy.