A Decade of National Patient Experience Feedback in Romania (2016–2026): A Harmonized, Reproducible Open Dataset

Romania’s Mecanismul de Feedback al Pacientului (MFP; Patient Feedback Mechanism) has collected post-discharge patient experience feedback from public hospitals since 2016 and publishes monthly aggregate workbooks through official channels, but the files are heterogeneous in layout, inconsistently granular, and have never been consolidated into a documented, reusable resource. This data descriptor presents a harmonized, reproducible open dataset built from 117 original workbooks. A Python pipeline integrates them into three analysis-ready artifacts: a national monthly series (113 observed releases over the December 2016–May 2026 span, 6004 tidy answer rows, an 18-row question legend spanning a 2024 instrument revision); a provider release panel (493,450 rows, 466 county plus exact-name provider identities, 42 counties, 39 releases); and a structurally separate legacy 2016 paper-based instrument. Provenance was verified by re-downloading sampled sources and confirming byte-for-byte identity, and national totals reconstructed by hospital summation reconcile exactly with an independent re-aggregation of the published hospital-level details. The release adds SHA-256 source checksums, a machine-readable data dictionary, and a provenance log. The descriptor documents reuse hazards (a ten-to-eight-item instrument break, uneven granularity, aggregate-only records, and string-defined provider identity) and a reuse opportunity: provider- and county-level integrity (informal-payment solicitation) items, usable for rare-event analysis under explicit shrinkage caveats.