Database: The Medicines Statistics Register (NPR) (Denmark)
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Sponsor, manager or home institution: The Danish Medicines Agency.
Type of information: Data Dictionary: The Medicines Statistics Register (NPR) [4]. 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 [5].
Available type of information: medicines, year, place of residence, sex, age, number of patients, number of shipments.
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: annual sales of pharmaceuticals [6], pharmacies' sales of medicines [7], and use of medicine during pregnancy [8]. Instructions to request data for restricted content [9]
Contact information: Information [10].
