A dataset of the Portuguese National Health Service hospitals.
hospitalsA data frame with 16 variables:
hospital_idA surrogate identifier created by this R package to identify unambiguously each hospital institution.
hospital_acronymThe acronym or initialism of the hospital name.
hospital_legal_statusLegal entity status: either an administrative public sector (SPA) entity, a corporate public entity (EPE) or a public-private partnership (PPP) entity. The legal status of SPA and EPE entities can be found in Decree-law 18/2017. For information about the legal status of the PPP entities see Decree-law 23/2020. The Portuguese government may also establish contracts with hospitals owned by social enterprises, namely Private Institutions of Social Solidarity (IPSS). In this case, these hospitals become effectively part of the National Health Service. There are three types of contracts that can be established with IPSS which are regulated by the Decree-law 138/2013: Management Agreement (IPSS-MA), Cooperative Agreement (IPSS-CA) and Convention (IPSS-CN).
hospital_integrationThe integration level of the hospital
institution: a single hospital unit ('H'); Centro Hospitalar
('CH'), comprising two or more individual Hospital units (a case of
horizontal
integration); and Unidade Local de Sa<U+00FA>de ('ULS'), comprising
both Hospital entities and primary care health centres (a case of
vertical
integration).
hospital_groupOne of the groups defined by Ordinance 82/2014: I, II, III, IV-a, IV-b or IV-c. This classification is based on the hospital catchment area and the scope of medical specialities provided. Broadly speaking, group I includes local hospitals, group II corresponds to regional hospitals, and group III to central hospitals. Group IV corresponds to specialised hospitals: IV-a, oncology institutes; IV-b, physical medicine and rehabilitation hospitals; and IV-c, psychiatry and mental health hospitals.
hospital_short_nameAn abbreviated version of the hospital name.
hospital_full_nameThe name of the hospital.
hospital_region_full_nameThe name of the Portuguese health region.
hospital_region_short_nameA shortened version of hospital_region_full_name.
hospital_vatinVAT identification number (VATIN). In Portuguese, N<U+00FA>mero de Identifica<U+00E7><U+00E3>o de Pessoa Colectiva (NIPC).
hospital_latitudeLatitude of the location of the hospital entity expressed in decimal degrees.
hospital_longitudeLongitude of the location of the hospital entity expressed in decimal degrees.
hospital_region_colourColour associated with the region. These
colours are assigned by this package and are provided as a convenience
colour palette for plotting in R.
hospital_bh_groupOne of the groups defined by the project Benchmarking of Hospitals. Source: BH | Grupos e Institui<U+00E7><U+00F5>es.
hospital_bh_group_colourColour associated with the bh_group. These
colours are assigned by this package and are provided as a convenience
colour palette for plotting in R.
hospital_regexA regular expression that can be used to identify hospitals
from their names, even when the names are not exactly as in
hospital_full_name.
The concept of hospital here adopted is that of a legal entity
providing hospital services. Depending on the organisational structure of the
entity, it may be a single hospital unit (H), several hospital units that
have been merged into one Hospital Centre (CH), or a merge of hospital units
and health centres into the so called Unidades Locais de Sa<U+00FA>de (ULS);
the column hospital_integration indicates which case is which.