Análisis descriptivo de los indicadores de actividad hospitalaria publicados por las consejerías de salud

Background: The supply of health activity data by health regional governments does not have a current study of the issue. The aim of this study was to analyze and describe the indicators of hospital activity related to public health organizations (health departments in the Spanish National Health System) showing the most notable experiences in this regard. Methods: Observational study. General Internet search engines were used to find and evaluate institutional web portals (Ministry of Health, regional health governments) detailing existence, availability, accessibility and quality of information (aggregation, update, format, gender and age vision) of hospital management activity offered between 2015-2019. Descriptive statistics were used with estimation of inter-observer concordance. Results: Generation of a list of 22 web portals for public health services. All the institutions evaluated had information on hospital activity. It is complex to find, freely available, disaggregated (14), updated (2018), in PDF format (15), gender vision: 2 (Catalonia and Madrid). No. of indicators per region: between 10 and 99 (average=54). Kappa agreement index (κ)=0.84. Notable contributions: Catalonia and Madrid, with other practices to highlight (Castilla y León, Murcia). Conclusions: The analysis of the management information offered by health regional governments shows a generic pattern of information that is difficult to access, disaggregated and updated at least two years from the time of the study, with a wide range of indicators, reduced contribution of the gender vision and in PDF format, which makes research and teaching difficult. Fundamentos: La oferta de datos de actividad sanitaria por las consejerías de salud no dispone de un estudio actual de la cuestión. El objetivo de este trabajo fue analizar y describir los indicadores de actividad hospitalaria relacionada con las organizaciones sanitarias públicas (consejerías de salud/sanidad en el Sistema Nacional de Salud español) mostrando las experiencias más notables en este sentido. Métodos: Estudio observacional. Se utilizaron buscadores generales de Internet para encontrar y valorar portales web institucionales (Ministerio de Sanidad, consejerías de sanidad/salud autonómicas) detallando existencia, disponibilidad, accesibilidad y calidad de la información (agregación, actualización, formato, visión de género y edad) de actividad de gestión hospitalaria ofrecida entre 2015-2019. Se usó estadística descriptiva