Hospital Medical Consultations

Monitor monthly the number of hospital visits in the national territory, per hospital entity. First medical consultations are the external consultations in which the user is first examined in a specialty service, referring to a clinical episode. Follow-up consultations are the medical appointments to verify the evolution of the patient’s state of health, therapeutic prescription and/or preventive, with reference to the first consultation. **Notes:** Not including occupational medical appointments. The data for month n-1 published on the 26th of month n.