Service data for one year (2008–09) from two tertiary and two
secondary care hospitals in Chandigarh was used to derive
proportional utilization rates of OPD & IPD and proportional
morbidity rates among each specialty (Text S1). This administrative
data was thus used to develop a morbidity profile for the
community. Additionally, we used this data to derive patterns of
treatment (e.g. in-patient care vs. out-patient care) and average
length of stay (Table 2). All four of these hospitals are publicly
funded and publicly administered. Given that they cater to the
majority of demand for curative services, they are fairly
representative of the morbidity profile of the population