Database: Register of Primary Health Care Visits (Finland)
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Primary purpose: Provide data on outpatient primary care for statistics, research, development and planning, and also to monitor infectious diseases, injuries, and health examinations.
Sponsor, manager or home institution: Finnish Institute of Health and Welfare.
Type of information: Data content of the register: Service provider in the service event; client contact by client; assessment of the need for treatment; appointment data; data on the content of the service event, such as reason for visit, procedures, and follow-up care. Data content of the care notification to the Register of Primary Health Care Visits - Basic data about the service event: Client's personal identity number (encrypted in the register); Client's municipality of residence; Postcode of the client's place of residence; Service provider; Service unit of the service provider; Event record code. Data on contact type and assessment of the need for treatment: Date and time of contact; Date and time of assessment of the need for treatment; Occupation (person assessing the need for treatment); Urgency of care; Type of visit; Outcome of assessment of the need for treatment. Appointment data: Date and time of appointment booking; Date and time of booked appointment; Occupation; Service type; Contact type. Service event data: Date and time, service event starting time; Date and time, service event closing time; Occupation (person delivering care); Service type; Contact type; Client group; Urgency; Type of visit; First visit; Reasons for visit/diagnoses; External cause (accidents); Type of accident; Procedures and interventions; Vaccination data and medication data; Dental health care, DMFT index; Dental health care, CPI index. Follow-up care: Service event cancellation; Reason for service event cancellation. 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: 2008 onwards.
Cancer Areas of Interest: unknown.
Data access: partially publicly available [2]. Instructions to request data for restricted content [3].
Contact information: Information [4].
