Accessibility and clarity

Release calendar

The publication date appears in the release calendar. The date is confirmed in the weeks before.

Release calendar access

The Release Calender can be accessed on our English website: Release Calender.

User access

Statistics are always published at 8:00 a.m. at the day announced in the release calendar. No one outside of Statistics Denmark can access the statistics before they are published.

News release

The statistics are published annually in Danish press release.

Publications

Not relevant for these statistics.

On-line database

The statistics are published in the StatBank under the subject hospital utilisation Statistics Denmark in the following tables:

From 2017-2024:

• SBR01: Hospital utilisation by municipality, hospital stay, age, and sex
• SBR02: Hospital stays by main diagnostic category, acute/non-acute, age, and sex
• SBR03: Individuals by number of hospital stays, age, and sex
• SBR04: Individuals by healthcare sector, age, and sex
• SBR05: Individuals by hospital type, age, and sex
• SBR06: Individuals by labour market affiliation, age, and sex
• SBR07: Individuals by education, age, and sex
• SBR08: Individuals by origin, age, and sex
• PAAROE40: Individuals by healthcare sector, family/relationship status, age, and sex
• PAAROE41: Individuals by hospital type, family/relationship status, age, and sex

From 2019-2023 - archived (in contrast to the new tables, these are divided into admissions and out-patient treatments):

• INDL_001: Admissions (LPR3) by region, diagnosis main groups, emergency/non-emergency, age and sex
• INDL_002: Hospitalized patients in somatics and psychiatry by region of residence, hospital service type, admissions, age and sex
• INDL_003: Hospitalized patients in public and private hospitals by region of residence, hospital, age and sex
• INDL_004: Hospitalized patients by hospital service type, ancestry, age and sex
• INDL_005: Hospitalized patients by hospital service type, family type, age and sex
• INDL_01: Admissions (LPR3) by region, diagnosis (99 groups), emergency/non-emergency, age and sex

• INDL_02: Admissions (LPR3) by region, diagnosis (23 groups), emergency/non-emergency, age and sex

• AMBU_001: Out-patient treatments (LPR3) by region, diagnosis main groups, emergency/non-emergency, age and sex

• AMBU_002: Out-patients in somatics and psychiatry by region of residence, hospital service type, treatment numbers, age and sex
• AMBU_003: Out-patients in public and private hospitals by region of residence, hospital, age and sex
• AMBU_004: Out-patients by hospital service type, ancestry, age and sex
• AMBU_005: Out-patients by hospital service type, family type, age and sex
• AMBU_01: Out-patient treatments (LPR3) by region, diagnosis (99 groups), emergency/non-emergency, age and sex
• AMBU_02: Out-patient treatments (LPR3) by region, diagnosis (23groups), emergency/non-emergency, age and sex

Micro-data access

Researchers and other analysts from authorized research institutions, can be granted access to the underlying microdata by contacting Research Services.

Other

Information from the Hospital Utilization register can be made available in a different form than in the Statistics Bank, e.g. tailor-made tasks can be ordered via DST-Consulting at consulting@dst.dk or Consulting.

Confidentiality - policy

Publications of Hospitalisation utilisation comply with the data privacy policy of Statistics Denmark. (Link in Danish).

Confidentiality - data treatment

Data is discretized when there are fewer than 3 observations in a strata.

Documentation on methodology

From 2019 onwards a download in Danish on the methodology is available in a note (named Notat_om_nye_nøgletal_for_indlagte_og_ambulante_patienter_på_sygehuse.pdf ) from Sundhedsdatastyrelsen. (Link in Danish). Furthermore, the content of the register of Hospital Utilization Statistics is documented in Statistics Denmark’s documentation system. Before 2019, the basis and contents of the statistics are described in Statistical Information. Statistical Information for 2012 is the last version of this and concerns admissions (not outpatient treatments). Furthermore, the content of the register of Hospital Utilization Statistics is documented in Statistics Denmark’s documentation system (TIMES). (Link in Danish).

Quality documentation

Results from the quality evaluation of products and selected processes are available in detail for each statistics and in summary reports for the Working Group on Quality.