Database: Care Register for Health Care (Finland)

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Primary purpose: Collect data on the activities of health centers, hospitals, and other institutions providing inpatient care and on the clients treated in them as well as on home-nursing clients for the purposes of statistics, research, and planning.

Sponsor, manager or home institution: Finnish Institute of Health and Welfare.

Type of information: Data Dictionary: Care Register for Health Care. More information about the data contained in the dataset [1].

Source of Information: Data is sent by healthcare providers nationwide.

Data level: patient level.

Number of Records: unknown.

Date Range: 1969 onwards.

Cancer Areas of Interest: unknown.

Data Access: not publicly available [2]. Instructions to request data for dataset [3].

Contact information: Information [4].