Database: PMSI (France)

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Primary purpose: to function as a comprehensive national hospital discharge database that records detailed information on hospital stays across both public and private hospitals in France.

Sponsor, manager or home institution: Caisse Nationale de l'Assurance Maladie (CNAM) [1], and Agence technique de l'information sur l'hospitalisation (ATIH) [2].

Type of information: Admission date, length of stay, main, related, and associate diagnosis coded in ICD-10, number of patients admitted for medical, surgical, and obstetrical wards, and other information. All of that information is for both public and private hospitals [3].

Source of information: Recording of standardized medico-administrative data in a standard collection of information.

Data level: patient level.

Number of Records: Covers 98.8% of the French population as of 2017 and receives approximately 25 million records per year [4].

Date Range: 1996 onwards [5].

Cancer Areas of Interest C00-D48: All neoplasms [6].

Data access: not publicly available. Instructions to request data for restricted content [7].

Contact information: Information [8].