Editing Data Dictionary: Medicines Registry

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'''Social security number''': 

*A personal identification number (PNR) according to certain predetermined rules


'''Quality of social security number''':

*A variable that shows the quality of the PNR


'''Age at the end of the year''':

*Calculated as year of expedition minus year of birth
*Sex
*Patient's place of registration at the time of dispatch: county, municipality, and parish (only counties and municipalities from 2016)


'''Patient's place of registration at the time of dispatch''':

*County and municipality
*Date of shipment: date when the patient bought the item


'''Date of prescription''':

*Date when the prescription was issued
*Start date for the current high-cost period


'''Patient's accumulated co-payment before dispatch''':

*Sum of co-payments paid by the patient during the current high-cost period (limited to costs within the pharmaceutical benefit)


'''Billing period''':

*Year and month in which the shipment was invoiced


'''Order type/sales method''':

*Indicates how the product has been prescribed


'''Transaction type''':

*Indicates how the item has been prescribed (coarser categories of non-type)


'''Origin of the prescription''': 

*How the prescription arrived at the pharmacy


'''Type of benefit within the framework of the pharmaceutical benefit''':

*Goods defined as "within the benefit" are discounted according to the benefit ladder


'''Starter pack''':

*Indicates whether the patient has received a starter pack of the prescribed item
*Flag indicating whether a change to a medically equivalent alternative is allowed at the pharmacy
*Code indicating the type of change during dispatch (e.g., from prescribed drug product to generic drug, parallel imported or distributed drug)
*Product type


'''Number of packages that have been picked up''': 

*For dose-dispensed medicines, the number of packages can be a decimal number
*Prescribed number of packages, if this differs from the dispatched number


'''Dosage text''':

*Free text containing information on dosage, use, and purpose


'''Patient's cost (excluding VAT)''': 

*Calculated as total cost minus benefit-cost


'''Benefit cost/County cost (excluding VAT)''':
*Amount that the county council pays for goods included in the pharmaceutical benefit


'''Total cost (excluding VAT)''':

*Includes both the part that the patient himself pays and the part that the county council pays


'''VAT rate''':

*Commercial goods etc. 25%, food 12%, pharmaceuticals 0%


'''Additional cost (excluding VAT)''':

*Amount the patient has to pay if they choose a drug other than the cheapest equivalent alternative
*Price per pack, including VAT


'''Issuer category code/prescriber category code''':

*The pharmacy's code for occupational