Italy

Administrative or Claims Data

Hospital Discharge Database (SDO)

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).

Source of Information:

Data level: Patient level.

Number of Records:

Date Range: 2001 onwards.

Open data access:

Information/Contact for data request:

Registries

Compilation: Open Databases

"Primary purpose:" Offer publicly available databases about multiple subjects.

"Sponsor, manager or home institution:" Ministry of Health.

"Type of databases:" Databases that include information about distribution, sale, logistics and authorizations of drugs, among other information.

"Source of information:" Unknown.

"Data level:" Regional level; national level.

"Number of Records:" Unknown.

"Date Range:" Varies.

"Cancer Areas of Interest:" Varies.

"Open data access:" Open data.

"Information/Contact for data request: The openly available data can be found here.