Hospital In-Patient Enquiry (HIPE)
Healthcare Pricing Office (HPO), Irish Department of Health
HIPE is a national computerised health information system recording demographic, administrative, and clinical data on all inpatient and daycase discharges from publicly funded acute hospitals in Ireland, covering approximately 1.7 million discharges annually from 58 public acute hospitals. Researchers access HIPE data through the HPO for health services research, epidemiology, clinical audit, and policy planning using the HIPE Statistics Reporter or data requests.
Category
Research database
Access
By application
Region
Europe — Ireland
Coverage
1.7 million annual discharges from 58 public acute hospitals in Ireland
License / terms
Government
Data types
Hospital discharges, Diagnoses, Procedures, Demographics, Length of stay, Admission sources