Hospital occupancy

Description

The Hospital occupancy dataset is a health data obtained from the Ministry of Health of Brazil through the Department of Specialized Health Care (SAES), (Ministério da Saúde, 2020b). This database started in April 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Since then was implemented the registration of admissions and bed occupancy through the ESUS System Notifica-SUS Admissions Module.The database includes the number of beds available for each health facility, how many were occupied by patients with suspected or confirmed cases of COVID-19 (SRAG occupation/COVID-19) and how many were occupied by patients for another medical specialization.

Data access information

The data is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License cc-by (version 4.0), see (Ministério da Saúde, 2020b). Additionally, the dataset is publicly available and published by the Ministry of Health of Brazil. Therefore, no approval by an ethics committee is required to use this data, according to Resolutions 466/2012 and 510/2016 (article 1, sections III and V) from the National Health Council (CNS), Brazil.

Methods of data collection

A python code is available on our Github directory to download the data from the OpenDatasus, see details in Github. The database is updated weekly in our project, being a version associated with its date of update. Additional information on data collection methods can be found in (Ministério da Saúde, 2020b) and Github.

Data-specific information for Hospital occupancy

The Hospital occupancy dataset has a total of 21 columns and showed a total of 1,164,623 registries (rows) and a size of 219Mb in the last update of October 11th, 2021. A code with more details about the variables, data processing and analysis methods is presented in our Github directory.