Denmark
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Healthcare System
Denmark citizens have access to universal healthcare funded by income tax. The national government regulates, plans and assesses healthcare. Regional government provides most of the healthcare services, while municipalities are responsible nursing homes, home care, school health services, disease prevention, rehabilitation and non-specialized long-term care. Citizens must register with a general practitioner who will refer patients to other specializations according to need. The CPR-number is an unique electronic personal identifier of Denmark permanent residents and configures an important tool to connect data across registries and databases.
Administrative or Claims Data
The Medicines Statistics Register (LSR)
Sponsor, manager or home institution: The Danish Medicines Agency
Type of information: Information on prescriptions dispensed to residents of long-termcare institutions
Source of information: Reports from pharmacies, hospital pharmacies, the Statens Serum Institut and Denmark's Food Research, and convenience stores that do not sell over-the-counter medicines reserved for pharmacies.
Data level: Patient level
Number of records: Receives 96 million reports per year. Current total number unknown.
Date range: 1995 onwards
Data access: The access to data from this database is restricted, for this purpose read the instrunctions presented here
Information/contact for data request: Contact information
Pharmacies' sales of medicines
Sponsor, manager or home institution: The Danish Health Data Agency
Type of information: Quantitative measures related to medications' sales.
Source of information: The Medicines Statistics Register (LSR)
Data level: National level
Number of records: Unknown
Date range: Year of birth ranges by 2001- 2018
Data access: It is openly available here
Information/contact for data request: Contact information
