Database: KSH Morbidity and Accidents (Hungary)

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Sponsor, manager or home institution: Központi Statisztikai Hivatal; Quality of Life Statistics Department.

Primary purpose: To describe the number, frequency, and other characteristics of certain illnesses and accidents.

Type of information: Data Dictionary: KSH Morbidity and Accidents Database. More metadata information [1].

Available type of information: main diagnosis of adults; year; age; sex; place of residence and main diseases of children [2].

Source of Information: Information comes from a combination of direct data collection (such as a report on the activities of family doctors and family pediatricians and the European Health Interview Survey) and administrative data transfer from various national institutions and organizations.

Data level: patient level.

Available data level: national level.

Number of Records: unknown.

Data range: 1999 onwards.

Cancer Areas of Interest: malignant neoplasms (C00-C97).

Data access: partially publicly available [3], under "Health" > "Morbidity and Accidents". Instructions to request data for restricted content [4].

Contact information: Information [5].