Database: Medicines Registry (Sweden)

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Primary purpose: The objective of the pharmaceutical registry is to enhance patient safety within the pharmaceutical industry.

Sponsor, manager or home institution: Socialstyrelsen.

Type of information: cross-sectional. age, sex, place of residence, medication use, number of drugs, number of patients. Data Dictionary: Medicines Registry. Click here to learn more.

Available type of information: shipments, medication use and ATC codes for all ages, drug groups for children 0-17 children; filtered by year, divided by age, monthly data divided by region, drug groups, ATC codes, regions, sex, measure (number of patients), year and month.

Source of information: The pharmaceutical register exclusively obtains data from the E-health authority, which requires all pharmaceutical trades to report their sales data. When a prescribed medication is dispensed, pharmacies must also furnish supplementary information to the E-health authority. The E-health authority, in turn, forwards information regarding prescription-based shipments to the National Board of Health and Welfare.

Data level: patient level.

Available data level: national level and regional level.

Number of records: About 100 million per year.

Date range: 2005 onwards.

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

Data access: partially publicly available: Click here to access. Instructions to request data for restricted content: click here to learn more. Data can be downloaded in the formats CSV, XLSX. Data has access costs.

Contact information: Click here to learn more.