Data dictionary: Drugs - DMA
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This is a summary of the variables available in the database. You can download the complete data dictionary. Click here to learn more.
Demographic Information
- Gender
- Age as registered in DICA or DBC age at diagnosis
- Hospital patient code
Diagnosis and Treatment
- Subdiagnosis
- Subdiagnosis_description
- Diagnosis date from DICA registry
- Treatment combination, based on active ingredients with overlapping treatment window
- Start date of the treatment combination
- Stop date of the treatment combination
- Treatment step
Hospital and Care Details
- Hospital agb code
- Type of hospital
- Highest level care activity group
- Description on the highest level care activity group
- Care activity group
- Description of the care activity group
- Care activity code
- Care activity description
Medication and Comorbidity
- All medication definitions
- Active ingredient name
- Merknaam (Brand name)
- ATC 1 code through ATC 5 code
- Comorbidity score
Mortality and Follow-up
- Date of death
- Mortality status
- Time from diagnosis date until max activity date
- If a patient was treated prior to death
