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Year – Year refers to the year in which the discharge occurred. For example, 2010 data relate to those discharged from hospital in 2010, even though some of these cases may have been admitted in earlier years.

Principal Diagnosis Report – allows reports to be run on principal diagnoses only.

Principal Procedure Report – allows reports to be run on principal procedures only.

All Diagnoses - The "All diagnoses" reports provides a count of all-listed diagnosis codes (including principal diagnosis and any additional diagnoses, it does not provide a count of discharges.

All Procedures - The "All procedures" report provides a count of the number of procedures (including principal and additional procedures) for discharges where a procedure was reported, it does not provide a count of discharges.

All Cases - All day patient and in-patient discharges.

In-Patient - An in-patient is admitted to hospital for treatment or investigation, either on a planned or emergency basis. While an in-patient would typically stay in hospital for at least one night, in the case of emergency admissions the date of admission and discharge may be the same. In this latter case, the length of stay is set to one day.

Day case - A person admitted to hospital for treatment on a planned (rather than emergency) basis and who is discharged alive, as scheduled, on the same day. Births are not included. On the basis of this definition, a day case cannot be admitted to hospital as an emergency.

Age - calculated on date of admission.

Health Region - Health Region of Residence of the discharge. The category "Other & NFA" includes "other" discharges with no known health region of residence (refers to discharges normally resident outside the Republic of Ireland) and "NFA" relating to discharges with no fixed abode.

Admitted from other location - This includes discharges admitted to hospital from a location other than home, including another hospital, nursing/convalescent home, long stay accommodation, hospice, psychiatric hospital/unit, temporary place of residence and prison. New borns are also included in this category.

Discharged to other location - This includes discharges to a location other than home, including nursing/convalescent home, other hospital, psychiatric hospital/unit, rehabilitation facility and hospice. This also includes discharges that are self discharged or absconded, discharged to prison, temporary place of residence or other location. Patients who died in hospital are also included in this category.

~ Between 1 and 5 discharges reported to HIPE.

* Further suppression is necessary to ensure that cells between 1 and 5 discharges are not disclosed.

^ Row aggregated to ensure that cells between 1 and 5 discharges are not disclosed.