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    • Country
      • 00 Australia
      • 01 Austria
      • 02 Belgium
      • 03 Canada
      • 04 Chile
      • 05 Colombia
      • 06 Costa Rica
      • 07 Czechia
      • 08 Denmark
      • 09 Estonia
      • 0a Finland
      • 0b France
      • 0c Germany
      • 0d Greece
      • 0e Hungary
      • 0f Iceland
      • 0g Ireland
      • 0h Israel
      • 0i Italy
      • 0j Japan
      • 0k Korea
      • 0l Latvia
      • 0m Lithuania
      • 0n Luxembourg
      • 0o Mexico
      • 0p Netherlands
      • 0q New Zealand
      • 0r Norway
      • 0s Poland
      • 0t Portugal
      • 0u Slovak Republic
      • 0v Slovenia
      • 0w Spain
      • 0x Sweden
      • 0y Switzerland
      • 0z Türkiye
      • 10 United Kingdom
      • 11 United States
      • Non-OECD Economies
        • 12 Croatia
        • 13 Malta
        • 14 Romania
        • 15 Singapore
    • Indicator
      • Primary care
        • 00 Asthma hospital admission
        • 01 Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease hospital admission
        • 02 Asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease hospital admission
        • 03 Congestive heart failure hospital admission
        • 04 Hypertension hospital admission
        • 05 Congestive heart failure and hypertension hospital admission
        • 06 Diabetes hospital admission
        • 07 Diabetes lower extremity amputation using unlinked data
        • 08 Diabetes lower extremity amputation using linked data
      • Acute care
        • 09 AMI 30 day mortality using unlinked data
        • 0a AMI 30 day mortality using linked data
        • 0b Hemorrhagic stroke 30 day mortality using unlinked data
        • 0c Hemorrhagic stroke 30 day mortality using linked data
        • 0d Ischemic stroke 30 day mortality using linked data
        • 0e Ischemic stroke 30 day mortality using unlinked data
        • 0f Hip-fracture surgery initiated within 2 days after admission to the hospital
      • Mental healthcare
        • 0g Suicide within 1 year after discharge among patients diagnosed with a mental disorder
        • 0h Suicide within 30 days after discharge among patients diagnosed with a mental disorder
        • 0i Excess mortality for patients diagnosed with schizophrenia
        • 0j Excess mortality for patients diagnosed with bipolar disorder
      • Patient Safety
        • 0k Retained surgical item or unretrieved device fragment
        • 0l Post-operative pulmonary embolism - hip and knee replacement discharges
        • 0m Post-operative deep vein thrombosis - hip and knee replacement discharges
        • 0n Post-operative sepsis - abdominal discharges
        • 0o Obstetric trauma vaginal delivery with instrument
        • 0p Obstetric trauma vaginal delivery without instrument
      • Patient experiences
        • 0q Consultation skipped due to costs
        • 0r Medical tests, treatment or follow-up skipped due to costs
        • 0s Prescribed medicines skipped due to costs
        • 0t Doctor spending enough time with patients during the consultation
        • 0u Regular doctor spending enough time with patients during the consultation
        • 0v Doctor providing easy-to-understand explanations
        • 0w Regular doctor providing easy-to-understand explanations
        • 0x Doctor giving opportunity to ask questions or raise concerns
        • 0y Regular doctor giving opportunity to ask questions or raise concerns
        • 0z Doctor involving patients in decisions about care or treatment
        • 10 Regular doctor involving patients in decisions about care or treatment
      • Prescribing in primary care
        • 11 Diabetic patients with at least one prescription of cholesterol lowering medication
        • 12 Diabetic patients with prescription of first choice antihypertensive medication
        • 13 Elderly patients with prescription of long-term benzodiazepines or related drugs
        • 14 Elderly patients with prescription of long-acting benzodiazepines or related drugs
        • 15 Patients with long-term prescription of any anticoagulating drug in combination with an oral NSAID
        • 16 Total volume of antibiotics for systemic use
        • 17 Volume of second line antibiotics as a share of total volume
        • 18 Overall volume of opioids prescribed
        • 19 Proportion of 75 years and over who are taking more than 5 medications concurrently
        • 1a Proportion of people 65 and over prescribed antipsychotics
        • 1b Proportion of the population who are chronic opioid users
      • End-of-life care
        • 1c Deaths in hospital
        • 1d Unplanned/urgent in-patient admissions during the last 30 days of life - Cancer deaths
        • 1e Unplanned/urgent in-patient admissions during the last 30 days of life - Cardiovascular diseases' deaths
        • 1f Unplanned/urgent in-patient admissions during the last 30 days of life - Chronic respiratory diseases' deaths
        • 1g Unplanned/urgent in-patient admissions during the last 30 days of life - Alzheimer's and other dementias' deaths
        • 1h Unplanned/urgent in-patient admissions during the last 30 days of life - All causes of death
        • 1i Unplanned/urgent in-patient admissions during the last 180 days of life - Cardiovascular diseases' deaths
        • 1j Unplanned/urgent in-patient admissions during the last 180 days of life - Chronic respiratory diseases' deaths
        • 1k Unplanned/urgent in-patient admissions during the last 180 days of life - Alzheimer's and other dementias' deaths
        • 1l Unplanned/urgent in-patient admissions during the last 180 days of life - All causes of death
        • 1m Unplanned/urgent in-patient admissions during the last 180 days of life - Cancer deaths
      • Mental Health - Patient Reported Experience Measures
        • 1n Care providers treating mental health patients with courtesy and respect (inpatient care)
        • 1o Care providers treating mental health patients with courtesy and respect (community-based care)
        • 1p Care providers spending enough time with mental health patients (inpatient care)
        • 1q Care providers spending enough time with mental health patients (community-based care)
        • 1r Care providers providing easy-to-understand explanations to mental health patients (inpatient care)
        • 1s Care providers providing easy-to-understand explanations to mental health patients (community-based care)
        • 1t Care providers involving mental health patient in decisions about care and treatment (inpatient care)
        • 1u Care providers involving mental health patient in decisions about care and treatment (community-based care)
      • Integrated care
        • 1v Ischaemic Stroke – All-cause hospital readmissions within 365 days after discharge
        • 1w Ischaemic Stroke – Disease-specific hospital readmissions within 365 days after discharge
        • 1x Ischaemic Stroke – All-cause mortality within 365 days after discharge
        • 1y Ischaemic Stroke – All-cause mortality or all-cause readmission within 365 days after discharge
        • 1z Ischaemic Stroke – All-cause mortality or disease-specific readmission within 365 days after discharge
        • 20 CHF – All-cause hospital readmissions within 365 days after discharge
        • 21 CHF – Disease-specific hospital readmissions within 365 days after discharge
        • 22 CHF - All-cause mortality within 365 days after discharge
        • 23 CHF - All-cause mortality or all-cause readmission within 365 days after discharge
        • 24 CHF - All-cause mortality or disease-specific readmission within 365 days after discharge
        • 25 CHF - Case fatality within 30 days of the admission date
    • Gender
      • 0 Total
      • 1 Male
      • 2 Female
    • Age Group
      • Age groups
        • 0 16 years and over
        • 1 15-74 years old
        • 2 65 years old and over
        • 3 45 years old and over
        • 4 15 years old and over
        • 5 75 years old and over
        • 6 All age groups
        • 7 18 years old and over
    • Value
      • 0 Crude rate per 100 patients
      • 1 Crude rate per 100 vaginal deliveries
      • 2 Ratio
      • 3 Age-sex standardised rate per 100 patients
      • 4 Age-sex standardised rate per 100 000 population
      • 5 Lower confidence interval
      • 6 Upper confidence interval
      • 7 Age-sex standardised ratio
      • 8 Number per 1 000 patients aged 65 and over
      • 9 Percentage of diabetic patients
      • a Number per 100 patients receiving anticoagulating drugs
      • b DDDs per 1000 population per day
      • c Percentage of all antibiotics prescribed
      • d Crude rate per 100 000 hospital discharges (using unlinked data)
      • e Crude rate per 100 000 hospital discharges (using linked data)
      • f Rate per 100 deaths (%)