Term: Hospital Abstracts Data

Glossary Definition

Last Updated: 2015-05-12

Definition:

Health data maintained by Manitoba Health consisting of individual level hospital records containing summaries of demographic and clinical information (e.g., gender, postal code, diagnoses and procedure codes) completed at the point of discharge from the hospital. Several hundred thousand abstracts per year are submitted for all separations from acute and chronic care facilities in Manitoba and for all Manitobans admitted to out-of-province facilities. The Hospital Abstracts Data include records of both Manitoba residents and non-Manitoba residents hospitalized in Manitoba facilities and information about inpatient and day surgery services.

There are three main types of hospital abstract data:

• Hospital Abstract User Manual (HAUM) - data from April 1, 1970 to March 31, 2004
  
• Discharge Abstract Data (DAD) - data from April 1, 2004 to the most recent update
  
• Reciprocal - data for Manitoba residents receiving services at out of province hospitals - data from other provinces from April 1, 2004 forward.

For more information on the Hospital Abstracts data, see the:

• Hospital Abstracts Data Description that contains a brief summary of the content of the data set and information on the Source Agency, Purpose, Years, Type, Size, Data Level, Components, Scope, Data Collection Method, Data Highlights, Data Cautions, Access Requirements, More Information, and Last Updated date;
  
  
• MCHP Metadata Repository - Hospital Abstracts data - [Internal Access Only] - for technical and programming related information, including an Overview, Data Model, Data Quality, Data Dictionary, Documents and Reports, and Blog.

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• Administrative Health Data
• Breastfeeding Initiation Rate
• Cancer Diagnoses Agreement
• Database
• Day Surgery / Outpatient Surgery
• Discharge Abstract Database (DAD)
• Duplicate Records
• Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS)
• Hospital Abstract
• Hospital Abstract Users Manual (HAUM) Data
• Hospital Data
• Hospital Overnight Census Counts
• Induction of Labour
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• Outpatient
• Palliative Care Units
• Physician Resource Database
• Rehabilitative Care
• Separation(s)
• Surgery Dates
• Vaginal Breech Birth/Delivery

Links 

• MCHP Data Repository - Hospital Abstracts Data Description

References 

• Martens P, Nickel N, Forget E, Lix L, Turner D, Prior H, Walld R, Soodeen RA, Rajotte L, Ekuma O. The Cost of Smoking: A Manitoba Study. Winnipeg, MB: Manitoba Centre for Health Policy, 2015. [Report] [Summary] [Updates and Errata] [Additional Materials] (View)