Database: Cancer incidence and mortality in the southern healthcare region - Healthcare costs per case (Sweden)

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Type of database: registry.

Primary purpose: To analyze healthcare costs per individual in relation to mortality and comorbidity among individuals affected by cancer in Skåne region.

Sponsor, manager or home institution: Lund University.

Type of information: longitudinal. Data on individuals diagnosed with cancer between 2000 and 2007, including details on healthcare costs (outpatient care, inpatient care, hospitalization days, and medications), as well as demographic information such as age, sex, place of residence, diagnosis, and medication use, with controls matched by gender and age from the population register, and spouses of cases used as additional controls, all analyzed in relation to cancer diagnosis.

Source of information: Registers/documents/lists from the cancer register in Southern Sweden.

Data level: patient level.

Number of records: 70000. Click here to learn more.

Date range: 2000-2007.

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

Data access: not publicly available. Instructions to request data for restricted content: click here to access. Click here to learn more.

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