Top Non-Local Hospital Visits by Alberta Residents, Fiscal Year 2017/2018

Alberta data on inpatient separations made by local residents to the top three accessed non-local hospitals for the 2017/2018 fiscal year. The dataset is part of the Alberta Health Primary Health Care - Community Profiles report published in March 2019. It covers 132 local geographic areas within the province.

Use Cases

• Analyze regional patient flow and healthcare access based on the count of separations to non-local facilities.
• Identify high-utilization hospitals for specific local geographic areas based on the top-three ranking.
• Model healthcare resource allocation based on the separation metric for inpatient service utilization.
• Study geographic disparities in acute care access based on the 132 local area breakdown.

Strengths

• Data is provided at both local geographic area (132 areas) and provincial Alberta levels.
• Focuses on the most recent fiscal year available at time of publication (2017/2018).
• Uses separations, a standard measure for hospital utilization based on discharge abstracts.

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 temporal bias inherent to a single fiscal year.

Provenance

Source

Government of Alberta | Gouvernement de l'Alberta

Collection Method

Likely compiled from hospital discharge abstracts (inpatient separations) by Alberta Health and Alberta Health Services.

Time Range

Fiscal Year 2017/2018

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-25 07:02:18.212413; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Alberta, Canada, with data for 132 local geographic areas.