Database: SNIIRAM (France)

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Primary purpose: Merges anonymous information about reimbursements made by various health care plans to improve the study of the practice of health policies, furnish data for the definition of new policies, and account for health care expenditure. It also makes it easier to access medical activity data [1].

Sponsor, manager or home institution: Caisse Nationale de l'Assurance Maladie (CNAM) [2].

Type of information: Data Dictionary: SNIIRAM [3].

Source of Information: Includes data from 3 main claims systems (CNAMTS, RSI, and MSA) and almost all the smaller systems [4].

Data level: patient level.

Number of Records: over 66 million (98.8% of the French population at 2017).

Date Range: 2002 onwards [5].

Cancer Areas of Interest:C00-D48: All neoplasms [6].

Data access: not publicly available. Instructions to request data for restricted content [7] [8]. There is a facilitated process to obtain access to SNIIRAM's dashboards, aggregated data (or datamarts), and a general sample of beneficiaries (EGB) data from the database. It is described in the following document [9].

Contact information: Information [10].