Data Dictionary: Socialstyrelsen National Patient Register

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Specialized outpatient care
Age at visit
Age at the end of the year
Anesthesia code 1
Anesthesia code 2
Year of visit
ATC code in case of poisoning, for medicines according to FASS (maximum 30 codes)
ATC code for drug delivery, for medicines according to FASS (maximum 30 codes)
Interrupted care at the emergency department
Time for medical assessment at the emergency department
Marital status of the patient
Number of reported diagnoses (may be more than 30)
Diagnoses according to ICD (maximum 30 diagnoses)
The patient's home district (data from Statistics Sweden)
Diagnosis-related grouping, which can assume approximately 550 values
External reason code 1
External reason code 2
External reason code 3
External reason code 4
External reason code 5
External reason code 6
External reason codes 1-5
The patient's country of birth
The patient's year of birth
The patient's date of birth (numerical)
The patient's date of birth (text)
Stated main diagnosis
A unique serial number for each visit to a healthcare facility (used, among other things, for DRG grouping and created by the National Board of Health and Welfare)
Time for the start of outpatient contact at the emergency department
Date of outpatient contact (numerical)
Date of outpatient contact (text)
Gender of the patient
Refers to the date on which automatic delivery control (LOK) was carried out, which takes place in connection with data providers submitting data (for each care contact, it is possible to see when this was last submitted to the National Board of Health and Welfare)
Form of outpatient contact
The patient's place of registration (information from Statistics Norway)
The patient's place of national registration (after checking with Statistics Sweden)
The patient's place of registration according to the informant
Who submitted the data - Private healthcare provider or region
Clinic from which the patient was discharged
Diagnosis-related grouping, which can assume approximately 550 values
Medical area of activity visited by the patient
The patient's country of citizenship
Action codes (maximum 30 actions)
Number of reported measures (may be more than 30)
Pseudonymized social security number (created by the National Board of Health and Welfare)
The patient's social security number
A variable that shows the quality of a personal identification number (PNR) according to certain predetermined rules, the variable is created using the standard macro checking
Psychiatric form of care
Indicates whether the visit was planned or not
Indicates if the patient does not have a social security number
An error list that lists registry errors by percentage distribution
Last immigration (year-month or year-month-day)
Last emigration (year-month or year-month-day)
Hospital at which the patient visited
Date when the register was posted
Marks whether a care contact was reported for the last time in accordance with the regulation
Time for the end of outpatient contact at the emergency department
Indicates whether the visit was an emergency visit and the type of emergency operation
Sequential number, which is the care contact's unique identification as created by the informant

Inpatient care
Age at date of discharge
Age at the end of the year
Anesthesia code 1
Anesthesia code 2
Discharge year
ATC code in case of poisoning. Medicines according to FASS. Max 30 codes
ATC code for drug delivery. Medicines according to FASS. Max 30 codes
The care allowance is regulated according to the agreement
Marital status of the patient
Number of reported diagnoses, may be more than 30
Diagnoses according to ICD. Max 30 diagnoses
The patient's home district, data from Statistics Sweden
Diagnosis-related grouping, can assume approx. 550 values
External cause code 1. See ICD code list
External cause code 2. See ICD code list
External cause code 3. See ICD code list
External cause code 4. See ICD code list
External cause code 5. See ICD code list
External reason code 1-5
The patient's country of birth
The patient's year of birth
The patient's date of birth
Stated main diagnosis
A unique serial number for each vtf. Used, among other things, for DRG grouping. Created by the National Board of Health and Welfare
The date the patient is enrolled
Number of days from the year 1960-01-01 up to and including INDATUM
The date the patient is enrolled
How the patient was enrolled
Gender of the patient
Refers to the date on which automatic delivery control (LOK) was carried out, which takes place in connection with data providers submitting data. For each care contact, it is thus possible to see when this was last submitted to the National Board of Health and Welfare. The variable is mainly useful for internal quality controls
The patient's place of registration information from Statistics Norway
The patient's place of registration after checking with Statistics Sweden
The patient's place of registration according to the informant
Who submitted the data - Private healthcare provider or region
Clinic from which the patient was discharged
Care opportunities grouped at chapter level
Medical practice area from which the patient was discharged
The patient's country of citizenship
Action codes max. 30 actions
Number of reported measures, may be more than 30
Date when action 1 was performed
Date when action 10 was performed
Date when action 11 was performed
Date when action 12 was performed
Date when action 13 was performed
Date when action 14 was performed
Date when action 15 was performed
Date when action 16 was performed
Date when action 17 was performed
Date when action 18 was performed
Date when action 19 was performed
Date when action 2 was performed
Date when action 20 was performed
Date when action 21 was performed
Date when action 22 was performed
Date when action 23 was performed
Date when action 24 was performed
Date when action 25 was performed
Date when action 26 was performed
Date when action 27 was performed
Date when action 28 was performed
Date when action 29 was performed
Date when action 3 was performed
Date when action 30 was performed
Date when action 4 was performed
Date when action 5 was performed
Date when action 6 was performed
Date when action 7 was performed
Date when action 8 was performed
Date when action 9 was performed
Pseudonymized social security number. Created by the National Board of Health and Welfare
The patient's social security number
Variable that shows the quality of a personal identification number (PNR) according to certain predetermined rules

The variable is created using the standard macro-checking; Psychiatric form.