Database: Hospital Discharge Database (SDO) (Italy)

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Primary Purpose: Store administrative information about hospital discharges in all national public or private hospitals.

Sponsor, manager or home institution: Ministry of Health.

Type of information: Patient's personal characteristics (including age, sex, residence, level of education), characteristics of the hospitalization (for example institution and discharge discipline, hospitalization regime, method of discharge, booking date, priority class of hospitalization) and clinical features (e.g. main diagnosis, concomitant diagnoses, diagnostic or therapeutic procedures). Data Dictionary: Ministry of Health Database List. Click here to learn more.

Available type of information: Claims data by region, national and regional claims by DRG, MDC, medical procedures, as well as various data about the length of stay for all these categories, among other information.

Source of Information: Information is sent to the SDO via form by public and private healthcare providers. Click here to learn more.

Data level: patient level.

Available data level: regional level and national level.

Number of Records: 98.9% of institutions covered as of 2020.

Date Range: 2001 onwards.

Cancer areas of interest: C00-C97: All cancer types. Click here to learn more.

Data access: partially publicly available. Click here to access. Instructions to request data for restricted content .Click here to access.

Contact information: Click here to access.