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 Dictionary: Register of Primary Health Care Visits [1].

Available type of information: average delay for medical procedures, region, year, sex.

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].