Hospitalisation rate
How many admissions are made to Danish hospitals? The statistics show the population’s admissions to public and private somatic and psychiatric hospital wards and how the admissions vary in terms of e.g. age and sex.
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A hospital stay where there is a minimum of 12 hours between the beginning and the end of the stay, and a maximum of 4 hours between each contact included in the hospitalization
A hospital stay of less than 12 hours total duration between the beginning and the end of the stay, and a maximum of 4 hours between each contact included in the hospitalization
Selected statistics on Hospital utilisation
Development in the number of admissions
The number of somatic and psychiatric admissions (defined as a minimum of 12 cohesive hours from the first physical hospital visit contact until the last physical hospital contact visit, with a maximum of 4 hours between contacts), public and private hospitals in Denmark.
External sources: The National Patient Register. The data is delivered by The Danish Health Data Agency (from 2012-2015 from SSI and before 2012 from the Danish Health Authority) LPR3 data is available for 2019-2022, and annual (LPR3) data delivery is resumed from 2022. Data (LPR2) has been received annually until 2019.
Internal sources: The Population Statistics Register.
Hospital admissions by age and sex
External sources: The National Patient Register. The data is delivered by The Danish Health Data Agency (from 2012-2015 from SSI and before 2012 from the Danish Health Authority) LPR3 data is available for 2019-2022, and annual (LPR3) data delivery is resumed from 2022. Data (LPR2) has been received annually until 2019.
Internal sources: The Population Statistics Register.
On the statistics – documentation, sources and method
See the documentation of statistics to learn more:
The purpose of the Hospital Utilization Statistics is to shed light on the connection between social and demographic conditions and admissions or out-patient treatments, etc. in hospitals.
The purpose of these statistics is to display the quality level of municipal services in the elderly care. The statistics are a part of a cross-public cooperation, intended to ensure coherent documentation of important areas of municipal service, as well as to increase the comparability of the services provided in the different municipalities. The statistics are used to determine impact targets, frameworks and results requirements for key management initiatives and are comparable from 2008 onwards. Statistics Denmark is responsible for the composition and publication of the statistics.