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

Table explanation

Description topics

Use of health care services

Contacts with health professionals and hospital admissions.

Hospital admissions by some diagnoses

Overnight admissions to general and university hospitals and hospitals specialising in one type of disease. Admissions are included if the date of discharge is within the year under review. Starting 2013, one-day admissions are counted only in case of death of the patient or transport to an other hospital.

Diagnoses are recorded according to the 'International Classification of Diseases'. Up to 2013 version 9 was used (ICD-9-CM), From 2013 onwards version 10 (ICD-10) is used.

Diagnoses are classified according to the International Shortlist for Hospital Morbidity Tabulation (ISHMT). Categories are definied slightly different using ICD-9 (up to 2013) or ICD-10 (from 2013).

Figures on diagnoses refer to the principal diagnosis registered at each admission, as indicated at discharge form the hospital.

The figures are expressed per 10 000 of the population in the year under review.

All diagnoses

Total hospital admissions.
ICD-codes:
ICD-9: 001-999, V01-V82
ICD-10: A00-Z99 (excluding V, W, X and Y codes).

Certain infectious and parasitic dis.

Certain infectious and parasitic diseases.
ICD-codes:
ICD-9: 001-033, 034.1-099.2, 099.5-134.9, 136.0, 136.2-139.8, 279.5-279.6
ICD-10: A00-B99.

Mental and behavioural disorders

ICD-codes:
ICD-9: 290-319
ICD-10: F00-F99.

Diseases of the nervous system

ICD-codes:
ICD-9: 320-359, 435
ICD-10: G00-G99.
From 2013 onwards ISHMT-definitions use ICD-10, resulting in inclusion of sleaping disorders in disdases of the nervous system.

Diseases of the eye and adnexa

Including adjoining and accompanying structures such as eye socket,
eyelids, tear gland and eye nerve.
ICD-codes:
ICD-9: 360-379
ICD-10: H00-H59.

Diseases of the ear and mastoid process

ICD-codes:
ICD-9: 380-389
ICD-10: H60-H95.

Diseases of skin and subcutaneous tissue

ICD-codes:
ICD-9: 680-709
ICD-10: L00-L99.

Congenital anomalies

Congenital malformations, deformations and chromosomal abnormalities.
ICD-codes:
ICD-9: 740-759
ICD-10: Q00-Q99.

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.