Database: Care Register for Health Care (Finland)

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Type of database: administrative/claims data

Primary purpose: Collect data on the activities of health centers, hospitals, and other institutions providing inpatient care and on the clients treated in them as well as on home-nursing clients for the purposes of statistics, research, and planning.

Sponsor, manager or home institution: Finnish Institute of Health and Welfare.

Type of information: longitudinal. number of patients; types of visits; place of residence; diagnosis; medical procedures; length of stay; number of visits; type of patient; type of patient discharge; medication use.

Data Dictionary: Care Register for Health Care.

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Source of Information: Data is sent by healthcare providers nationwide.

Data level: patient level.

Number of Records: unknown.

Date range: 1969 onwards.

Cancer areas of interest: unknown.

Data access: partially publicly available. Click here to learn more. Data requires a grant proposal to be accessed. Instructions to request data for restricted content click here to access.

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