Database: The Medicines Statistics Register (NPR) (Denmark)

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Sponsor, manager or home institution: The Danish Medicines Agency.

Type of information: Information on prescriptions dispensed to residents of long-termcare institutions. Includes ATC codes of drugs related to cancer treatment such as antineoplastic agents, detoxifying agents used in connection with high dose treatment of antineoplastic agents, radiopharmaceuticals, and others. The ATC code for each type of drug information [4].

Available type of information:

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.

Available data level: regional level

Number of records: Receives 96 million reports per year. Current total number is unknown.

Date range: 1994 onwards.

Cancer areas of interest: unknown.

Data access: partially publicly available [5]. Instructions to request data for restricted content [6].

Contact information: Information [7].