Aim: The purpose of obtaining the required data is to obtain a source of information on the health status of the population. At the same time, the National Register of Hospitalized Patients provides data for a qualitative and quantitative assessment of the activities of individual inpatient facilities and their departments.

Data from the NRHOSP are an important tool for managing the health sector and determining the concept and implementation of the state's health policy, which is needed to define the optimal network of inpatient medical facilities. The resulting information from the NRHOSP is transferred to the database of the World Health Organization (WHO) and other international organizations according to contractual obligations.

Statistical unit of inquiry: The statistical unit is the completed stay of a hospitalized patient in the department.

Every completed hospitalization of a patient (native or foreigner) in one inpatient department of an inpatient care provider, regardless of the method of admission and termination (discharge, transfer, death) becomes a mandatory report.

Cases of one-day care (one-day surgery) are also reported to NRHOSP. One-day care is health care, the provision of which requires the patient to stay in bed for a period of less than 24 hours, taking into account the nature and duration of the medical services provided. When providing one-day care, continuous availability of acute inpatient intensive care must be ensured ( Section 8, Act No. 372/2011 Coll. , on health services).

Newly, in accordance with  decree 373/2016 Coll. cases of hospitalization not completed by the end of the monitored year are also compulsorily reported to the NRHOSP, by the end of January of the following year at the latest. These cases must be marked with the termination method "hospitalization continues" with a termination date of 12/31 of the monitored year.