Database: National Oncology Drugs Management System (Ireland)
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Sponsor, manager or home institution: National Cancer Control Programme (NCCP); Health Service Executive; National Cancer Drug Management Programme; Primary Care Reimbursement Service (PCRS).
Primary purpose: To organize and oversee the utilization of cancer medications nationally.
Type of information: Patient demographics, usage of cancer drugs, and expenditures on cancer medications; Other patients' information comprises their name, date of birth, gender, address, and contact details (if provided), as well as their PPS or medical card number or long-term illness card number (if available). Information about the data contained in the database [2].
Source of Information: The hospital personnel enters the necessary data into an internet-based system supervised and run by PCRS. PCRS provides NCCP with anonymous and combined reports generated from the system. The data is gathered every month.
Data level: patient level.
Number of Records: 21,030 claims submitted – 2021; 17,019 claims submitted – 2020; 15,640 claims submitted - 2019.
Date Range: Data collection started in September 2012, and reporting procedure began in April 2013 onwards.
Cancer Areas of Interest: unknown.
Data access: not publicly available. Instructions to request data for restricted content [3].
Contact information: Information [4].
