Croatia
Cancer Centers
Healthcare System
Croatia has a mandatory health insurance system, with the Croatian Health Insurance Fund (CHIF) being its sole insurer and main purchaser. Additional, voluntary health insurance can be purchased individually from the CHIF or private insurers to cover co-payments for services in the benefit package, with over 60% of the population opting for this additional insurance. The main regulatory body of the Croatian health system is the Ministry of Health.
The National Public Health Information System of the Croatian Institute of Public Health (CIPH) collects data for various registries, including a cancer registry. The Central Health Information System, on the other hand, is managed by CHIF and is used to share standardized health data to support delivery of primary, secondary and tertiary healthcare. [1]
Administrative or Claims Data
Central Health Information System
Sponsor, manager or home institution: Croatian Health Insurance Fund.
Type of information: The content of the complete dataset was not found.
Available type of information: Procedures grouper including tables with all categories of procedures, casemix, admission justification, main diagnosis, as well as different sortings such as frequency by category of hospital, by complexity, etc.
Source of information: Data is acquired from all healthcare providers in Croatia [2].
Data level: Patient level.
Available data level: Hospital level.
Number of records: Unknown.
Date range: Unknown.
Available date range: 2010 onwards.
Open data access: Partially open data. Reports can be found here.
Information/Contact for data request: Unknown.
Registries
Croatian National Cancer Registry
Primary purpose: Register cancer frequency and mortality in Croatia.
Sponsor, manager or home institution: Croatian Institute of Public Health.
Type of information: Discharged patients and out-of-hospital reports of malignant neoplasm, registers of cancer death.
Source of Information: Reports from health institutions and private practice health workers. The mortality database is sent from the State Statistics Office and the Croatian Institute of Public Health data from the Patient Statistical Forms on magnetic media obtained from the Department of Health Care and Hospital Health Care of the Croatian Institute of Public Health.
Data level: Patient level.
Number of Records: Unknown.
Date Range: 1959 onwards. [3]
Cancer Areas of Interest: Unknown.
Open data access: Data is not open to access. Reports can be found here.
Information/Contact for data request: Instructions to access data here.
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