Database: NIJZ Outpatient Health (ZUBSTAT) (Slovenia)

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Sponsor, manager or home institution: Nacionalni inštitut za javno zdravje.

Primary purpose: The purpose of the out-of-hospital health statistics database (ZUBSTAT) is to monitor, evaluate and plan curative and preventive health care at the primary and secondary levels.

Type of information: Data dictionary was not found. More metadata information [1].

Available type of information: number of visits, (treatments) and rate of visits at the primary level; year; types of visits; Number and rate of preventive visits; age group; sex; Number and rate of curative; Home visits and counseling; Statistical region; Number of corrective visits; Number and rate of diagnosed diseases; Conditions at the primary level; ICD-10; Main diagnoses chapters; Number and rate of visits to specialist outpatient services; type of medical activity; Number of curative visits in specialist outpatient services and conditions in specialist outpatient services.

Source of Information: Reported by public and private healthcare providers.

Data level: patient level.

Available data level: national level.

Number of Records: unknown.

Date Range: 1996 onwards [2].

Cancer Areas of Interest: neoplasms (C00-D48).

Data access: partially publicly available [3] under "Healthcare" > "Treatments at primary care level" and "Healthcare" > "Specialized outpatient treatments". Instructions to request data for restricted content [4].

Contact information: Information [5].