Specialization Services in Hospitals of Atlántico Department, Colombia (October 2020)

Registro de Especialidades en Hospitales del departamento del Atlántico lists all specialization services in hospitals within Colombia's Atlántico department, as of October 2020. The dataset is provided by www.datos.gov.co and was last updated on the platform in May 2026. It contains three columns detailing hospital names, codes, and their offered specialties.

Use Cases

• Mapping hospital service availability by analyzing ESPECIALIDADES_PRESTADOR and NOMBRE_PRESTADOR across the department.
• Linking facility records using COD_PRESTADOR as a unique identifier for cross-referencing with other health datasets.
• Analyzing the concentration of medical specialties by counting occurrences in the ESPECIALIDADES_PRESTADOR column.

Strengths

• Data is structured with a clear key column (COD_PRESTADOR) for joining or deduplication.
• Provides a specific temporal snapshot of services as of October 2020.
• Available in multiple machine-readable formats including CSV, JSON, XML, and RDF.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale analysis.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality and completeness require manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

www.datos.gov.co

Collection Method

Likely an administrative registry of hospital services.

Time Range

Snapshot as of October 2020.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-18 19:24:22; freshness should be verified as the underlying data is from 2020.

Geography

Atlántico department, Colombia.