Database: The Danish National Patient Registry (DNPR) (Denmark)

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Primary purpose: Gather information to serve as a basis for budget calculations and statistical comparison.

Sponsor, manager or home institution: The Danish Health Data Authority.

Type of information: Data dictionary - Danish National Patient Registry.

Available type of information: Statistics on diagnosis and operations. Both data can be filtered by year, sex, age, region of residence, hospital region, hospital, and specialty. Diagnosis data presents number of stays as the only measure and also includes the filters of action diagnosis, type of admission, duration, and age grouping in psychiatry. Operations data presents number of operations and number of primary operations as measures and also includes the mode of admission filter.

Source of information: Collected monthly from mandatory public and private hospitals' reports.

Data level: Patient level.

Number of records: Nationwide coverage since 1978. Considering the period between 1977–2012, the DNPR registered 8,085,603 persons, accounting for 7,268,857 inpatients, 5,953,405 outpatients, and 5,097,300 emergency department contacts.

Cancer areas of interest: List of cancer areas of interest [4].

Date range: 1977 onwards.

Data access: Partially publicly available [5]. Instructions to request data for restricted content [6].

Contact information: Information [7].