Data Dictionary: Medicines Registry

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Social security number:

• A personal identification number (PNR) according to certain predetermined rules

Quality of social security number:

• A variable that shows the quality of the PNR

Age at the end of the year:

• Calculated as year of expedition minus year of birth
• Sex
• Patient's place of registration at the time of dispatch: county, municipality, and parish (only counties and municipalities from 2016)

Patient's place of registration at the time of dispatch:

• County and municipality
• Date of shipment: date when the patient bought the item

Date of prescription:

• Date when the prescription was issued
• Start date for the current high-cost period

Patient's accumulated co-payment before dispatch:

• Sum of co-payments paid by the patient during the current high-cost period (limited to costs within the pharmaceutical benefit)

Billing period:

• Year and month in which the shipment was invoiced

Order type/sales method:

• Indicates how the product has been prescribed

Transaction type:

• Indicates how the item has been prescribed (coarser categories of non-type)

Origin of the prescription:

• How the prescription arrived at the pharmacy

Type of benefit within the framework of the pharmaceutical benefit:

• Goods defined as "within the benefit" are discounted according to the benefit ladder

Starter pack:

• Indicates whether the patient has received a starter pack of the prescribed item
• Flag indicating whether a change to a medically equivalent alternative is allowed at the pharmacy
• Code indicating the type of change during dispatch (e.g., from prescribed drug product to generic drug, parallel imported or distributed drug)
• Product type

Number of packages that have been picked up:

• For dose-dispensed medicines, the number of packages can be a decimal number
• Prescribed number of packages, if this differs from the dispatched number

Dosage text:

• Free text containing information on dosage, use, and purpose

Patient's cost (excluding VAT):

• Calculated as total cost minus benefit-cost

Benefit cost/County cost (excluding VAT):

• Amount that the county council pays for goods included in the pharmaceutical benefit

Total cost (excluding VAT):

• Includes both the part that the patient himself pays and the part that the county council pays

VAT rate:

• Commercial goods etc. 25%, food 12%, pharmaceuticals 0%

Additional cost (excluding VAT):

• Amount the patient has to pay if they choose a drug other than the cheapest equivalent alternative
• Price per pack, including VAT

Issuer category code/prescriber category code:

• The pharmacy's code for occupational