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. [1].

Sponsor, manager or home institution: Caisse Nationale de l'Assurance Maladie (CNAM), and Agence technique de l'information sur l'hospitalisation (ATIH). Click here to learn more Click here to learn more.

Type of information: Data Dictionary: PMSI (France). All of that information is for both public and private hospitals. Click here to learn more.

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. Click here to learn more.

Date Range: 1996 onwards. Click here to learn more.

Cancer Areas of Interest C00-D48: All neoplasms. Click here to learn more.

Data access: not publicly available. Instructions to request data for restricted content Click here to access.

Contact information: Information Click here to learn more.