Larysse at 17:24, 4 December 2025

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Lucas: Update categories.

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Update categories.

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Francine at 19:53, 25 June 2024

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Larysse at 20:46, 19 May 2024

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Francine: Created page with "Go back to Sweden page '''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) '''Patien..."

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Created page with "Go back to Sweden page '''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) '''Patien..."

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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

Data Dictionary: Medicines Registry - Revision history

Larysse at 17:24, 4 December 2025

Lucas: Update categories.

Francine at 19:53, 25 June 2024

Larysse at 20:46, 19 May 2024