Database: Hospital Utilization Information (Denmark)

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Type of database: administrative/claims data.

Primary purpose: To analyze the relationship between social and demographic factors and hospital admissions and outpatient visits. Click here to learn more.

Sponsor, manager or home institution: Statistics Denmark.

Type of information: longitudinal. medical procedures, type of hospital, number of patients, diagnosis, length of stay, type of patient, place of residence, age, sex, year. Click here to learn more.

Source of information: National Patient Register, which is validated by the Danish Health Data Agency.

Available data level: regional level.

Number of Records: unknown.

Date range: varies accordingly to the indicator selected.

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

Data access: publicly available. Click here to access. Data can be downloaded in the formats XLSX; CPX; PX; DBF; XLS; SAS; CSV; TXT; TSD and ASB.

Contact information: Click here to access.