Database: The Medicines Statistics Register (NPR) (Denmark)

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Type of database: administrative/claims data.

Primary purpose: To monitor and analyze medicine consumption in Denmark to support healthcare decision-making and policy development. Click here to learn more.

Sponsor, manager or home institution: The Danish Medicines Agency.

Type of information: longitudinal. age; sex; place of residence; costs reimbursement; substance name; number of drugs; region; type of patient; year. Data Dictionary: The Medicines Statistics Register (NPR). Click here to learn more. Information on prescriptions dispensed to residents of long-termcare institutions. Includes ATC codes of drugs related to cancer treatment such as antineoplastic agents, detoxifying agents used in connection with high dose treatment of antineoplastic agents, radiopharmaceuticals, and others. Click here to learn more. Click here to learn more about the ATC code for each type of drug information.

Available type of information: number of drugs, year, place of residence, sex, age, number of patients, number of shipments.

Source of information: Reports from pharmacies, hospital pharmacies, the Statens Serum Institut and Denmark's Food Research, and convenience stores that do not sell over-the-counter medicines reserved for pharmacies.

Data level: patient level.

Available data level: regional level.

Number of records: Receives 96 million reports per year. Current total number is unknown.

Date range: 1994 onwards.

Cancer areas of interest: C00-D48: All neoplasms. Click here to learn more.

Data access: partially publicly available. For annual sales of pharmaceuticals click here to access, pharmacies' sales of medicines information click here to access, and use of medicine during pregnancy click here to access. Data can be downloaded in the formats XLSX and TXT. Data requires a grant proposal to be accessed. Instructions to request data for restricted content click here to access.

Contact information: Click here to access.