Database: Register of Primary Health Care Visits (Finland)

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Type of database: administrative/claims data.

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: longitudinal. place of residence; hospital location; types of visits; type of medical activity; length of stay; medical procedures. Data Dictionary: Register of Primary Health Care Visits. Click here to learn more.

Available type of information: medical procedures, region, year, sex; length of stay; diagnosis. Click here to learn more.

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: C00-D48: All neoplasms. Click here to learn more.

Data access: partially publicly available. Click here to access. Data can be downloaded in the formats XLS and CSV. 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.