Database: ELSTAT Discharge Data (Greece)

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Type of database: administrative/claims data.

Primary purpose: Provides information about patient discharges.

Sponsor, manager or home institution: Hellenic Statistical Authority (ELSTAT).

Type of information: longitudinal. diagnosis, hospital discharges, age, place of residence, sex, length of stay, year, type of patient discharge. Data dictionary was not found.

Available type of information: Discharged patients filtered by diagnosis, age, place of residence, sex, length of stay, year, type of patient discharge. Click here to learn more.

Source of Information: Annual census collecting data from public and private hospitals.

Data level: Unknown.

Available data level: regional level.

Number of Records: All discharged patients. 1,484,485 patients at 2015.

Date range: 1996 to 2015.

Cancer areas of interest: C00-D48: All neoplasms. Click here to learn more. Full list of cancer types:

Cancer Areas of Interest: ELSTAT Discharge Data.

Data access: partially publicly available. Click here to access. Data can be downloaded in the XLS and PDF format. Data has access costs. Data requires a grant proposal to be accessed. Instructions to request data for restricted content click here to access.

Contact information: Click here to access.

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