Health, lifestyle, health care use and supply, causes of death; from 1900

Table explanation

Description topics

Care supply

Quantitative data on hospitals, health professionals and costs of care.

Quantitative hospital data

Total number of beds, hospital admissions, nursing days, and average
duration of hospitalisation per admission for all hospitals (general,
university and specialised hospitals including revalidation centres).
Figures for 1932-1964 exclude sanatoriums for tuberculosis patients and
clinics for patients with neuroses; figures until 1972 exclude military
hospitals. Source: 1925-1964: Public Health Inspectorate.

Beds

Until 2006: actual beds (for both in-patient and out-patient treatment). This is the average number of beds a health care institution uses in its
daily care schedule. Including beds in hospital psychiatric wards
(PAAZ/PUK beds). Source: until 2002 the annual survey among hospitals and rehabilitation institutions, by Statistics Netherlands, 2002-2005 performed by Prismant.
From 2006: The number of actual beds at health care providers (academic hospitals, general hospitals, categoral hospitals and rehabilitation institutions), for stay and (clinical, day-and part-time) treatment, excluding PAAZ/PUK beds and including cribs for healthy newborns and beds in rehabilitation institutions. Infomation comes from DigiMV (web survey) and is part of the annual Corporate Responsibility document. Independent Treatment Centers (ZBCs) are not included, unless they are part of a hospital group. In the latter case, the beds of the ZBCs are counted.

PAAZ: psychiatric ward of a general hospital
PUK: psychiatric university clinic

Hospital admissions

The number of new periods of hospitalisation for which one or more
nursing days are charged. Hospital births are counted as admissions, with
the exception of out-patient births. Internal transfers, i.e. within the
same hospital, are not counted as new admissions. Healthy babies who stay
in the hospital during their mother's admission are counted as
admissions. Until 2006, admissions to hospital psychiatric wards
(PAAZ/PUK admissions) are included. From 2006 PAAZ admissions are
excluded, and from 2008 this also applies for PUK admissions.
PAAZ: psychiatric ward of a general hospital
PUK: psychiatric university clinic

Nursing days

Calendar day for which a patient is charged, falling within the period
from hospital admission to discharge. The day of admission, if admission
is before 20.00 hrs, and the day of discharge are counted as nursing
days. Also includes absence days. An absence day is a day, but not the
day of discharge, before a night which a patient does not spend in
hospital. These days mostly fall in planned three-day (max.) absence
periods. Absence days cannot be declared at the nursing rate concerned.
Absence days following pre-operative screening may not be declared as
absence days (or nursing days) and cannot be charged at all. Nursing days
of patients in special units, such as those for intensive care, etc. are
included.
- if admission takes place at or later than 20.00 hrs, the day of the
admission is not counted as the first nursing day.
- if the patient dies on the day of admission or discharges himself
against doctor's advice, the day is counted as a nursing day.
- an admission lasting for less than 24 hours is considered a normal
nursing day.
Until 2006, nursing days at hospital psychiatric wards (PAAZ/PUK days)
are included. From 2006 PAAZ days are excluded, and from 2008 this also
applies for PUK days.
PAAZ: psychiatric ward of a general hospital
PUK: psychiatric university clinic

Average period of hospitalisation

Number of nursing days in a given period divided by the number of
patients admitted.