Database: Primary Care Clinical Data Base (BDCAP) (Spain)

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Primary purpose: Make statistics on primary level care available.

Sponsor, manager or home institution: Ministerio de Sanidad.

Type of information: Active health problems in the year of study; Interconsultations; Visits; Procedures; Prescribed medications; Clinic parameters; Comorbidity; Year; Sex; Age; Birth country; Geographic region; Region's extent by the number of inhabitants; Annual income of patients; The employment situation of the patients; Subpopulation by type of health problem; Year of disease initiation; Subpopulation by prescribed medication.

Source of information: Electronic medical records.

Data level: patient level.

Available Data level: regional level.

Number of Records: Around 4,900,00 people per year.

Date range: 2011 onwards.

Cancer Areas of Interest: neoplasms (C00-D49). Cancer areas of interest list [3].

Data access: partially publicly available [4]. Monographic and didactic reports information [5]. Instructions to request data for restricted content [6], [7].

Contact information: Information [8].