Database: Medicines Registry (Sweden)
Sponsor, manager or home institution: Socialstyrelsen.
Primary purpose: The objective of the pharmaceutical registry is to enhance patient safety within the pharmaceutical industry.
Type of information: Data Dictionary: Medicines Registry. Data dictionary information [1].
Available type of information: Drug groups and ATC codes for all ages, drug groups for children 0-17 children; filtered by annual data, monthly data divided by age, monthly data divided by region, drug groups, ATC codes, regions, sex, measure, 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 and regional level.
Number of Records: About 100 million per year.
Date Range: 2005 onwards.
Cancer Areas of Interest: Unknown.
Data access: Partially publicly available [2]. Instructions to request data for restricted content [3].
Contact information: Information [4].
