Patient statistics

Updated: 11 April 2024

Next update: Not yet determined

Patients in hospitals
Patients in hospitals
2023
2 109 501
 
Number of persons with at least one treatment at general hospitals, by sex.
Number of persons with at least one treatment at general hospitals, by sex.1
2023
Both sexesFemalesMales
Patients at general hospital, in total2 109 5011 135 453974 257
In-patients518 593285 608232 992
Patients with day cases284 470158 004126 472
Out-patients1 957 1201 054 438902 868
1One person can have received treatment at more than one level of care. Only Norwegian residents are included. Source: NPR
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Selected tables and charts from this statistics

  • Patients in general hospitals by gender and diagnose
    Patients in general hospitals by gender and diagnose
    2023
    Totals, both sexesPercentage share womenPercentage share men
    DIAGNOSIS
    INFECTIOUS AND PARASITIC DISEASES45 6464753
    NEOPLASMS216 3755545
    DISEASES OF THE BLOOD AND BLOOD-FORMING ORGANS AND CERTAIN DISORDERS INVOLVING THE IMMUNE SYSTEM28 3145248
    ENDOCRINE, NUTRITIONAL AND METABOLIC DISEASES152 5615347
    DISEASES OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM180 6775050
    DISEASES OF THE EYE AND ADNEXA135 0615347
    DISEASES OF THE EAR AND MASTOID PROCESS107 7074852
    DISEASES OF THE CIRCULATORY SYSTEM222 6574258
    DISEASES OF THE RESPIRATORY SYSTEM148 3214852
    DISEASES OF THE DIGESTIVE SYSTEM240 8835248
    DISEASES OF THE SKIN AND SUBCUTANEOUS TISSUE108 9575446
    DISEASES OF THE MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM AND CONNECTIVE TISSUE370 8585842
    DISEASES OF THE GENITOURINARY SYSTEM214 9586634
    PREGNANCY, CHILDBIRTH AND THE PUERPERIUM77 3641000
    CERTAIN CONDITIONS ORIGINATING IN THE PERINATAL PERIOD10 2484456
    CONGENITAL MALFORMATIONS47 8414654
    SYMPTOMS, SIGNS AND ABNORMAL CLINICAL AND LABORATORY FINDINGS, NOT ELSEWHERE CLASSIFIED347 5335347
    INJURY, POISONING AND CERTAIN OTHER CONSEQUENCES OF EXTERNAL CAUSES356 2404852
    OTHER CAUSES AND UNSPECIFIED CAUSES613 4305842
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About the statistics

Statistics on the population's use of general hospitals; diagnoses, treatment level as inpatient stays, outpatient consultations and day treatment, distributed by geography, gender and age. Mental health care and multidisciplinary specialist substance abuse treatment are not included.

The information under «About the statistics» was last updated 12 September 2021.

General Hospitals are hospitals that admit patients with physical disorders; as opposed to psychiatric hospitals.

In-patients: admission with an actual or planned overnight stay.

Patients with day cases: admission without an overnight stay and treatment at the out-patient clinic that is more comprehensive than an out-patient consultation.

Out-patients: short-term treatment performed in hospital.

Bed-days: is the number of days an admitted patient with in-patient stays takes up a bed.

Classification of diseases:diagnoses are encoded by ICD-10 (International Classification of Diseases). Classification ICD-10 gives information on the patient's condition, but gives little information about the treatment.

Diagnosis refers to the main condition for which the patient receives treatment.

Name: Patient statistics
Topic: Health

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Statistics on the population's use of general hospitals; diagnoses, treatment level as inpatient stays, outpatient consultations and day treatment, distributed by geography, gender and age. The statistics are compiled based on the hospitals’ reporting to the Norwegian Patient Register (NPR).

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The NPR publishes statistics based on the data from the database, https://helsedirektoratet.no/statistikk-og-analyse/statistikk-fra-norsk-pasientregister.

Statistics Act, § 3.2 (Administrative registers)

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The statistics cover all persons who are residents of Norway. Persons living in Norway temporarily are not included in the statistics.

The statistics cover activity in general hospitals. Mental health care and multidisciplinary specialist substance abuse treatment are not included.

The data source is the somatic hospitals’ reporting to the NPR. This health registry includes a selection of information recorded at the treatment site when patients are referred to or receive health care in specialist services. The register is owned by the Norwegian Directorate of Health.

If a patient has to stay at several departments at the same institution during the same admission, these stays are aggregated to one hospital stay. The statistics give an overview of the number of patients with at least one stay in a general hospital.

The NPR statistics include all people who have received treatment. Statistics Norway does not include foreign residents in these statistics. Statistics Norway excluded some units in the years before 2015, and for these years the population is not comparable to that used by the NPR.

Data are subjected to controls and an internal revision by the NPR.

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Figures cannot be published where an individual’s identity could be revealed. The statistics follow Statistics Norway’s general rules on confidentiality.

The statistics are comparable to statistics published by the NPR, and statistics on the specialist health service are supplementary.

Only persons resident in Norway and registered with a valid personal identification number are included in the statistics. There is assumed to be a degree of misreporting of diagnoses.

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