Database: Andmebaas Cancer Screening Registry (Estonia)
Sponsor, manager or home institution: The Health Statistics and Health Research Database; The National Institute for Health Development.
Primary purpose: The register collects and analyzes personalized data about the target group of breast, cervical and colon cancer screenings.
Type of information: Data of persons belonging to the target group of screening studies; Screened research participation data and the results of the basic and additional studies performed [1]. Data dictionary could not be found for this database.
Available type of information: Breast cancer screening target population and women invited to screening; Breast cancer screening coverage by examination in target population; Breast cancer screening invitational coverage and coverage by examination in women invited to screening; Detected cancer cases in breast cancer screening programme; Cervical cancer screening target population and women invited to screening; Cervical cancer screening coverage by examination in target population; Cervical cancer screening invitational coverage and coverage by examination in women invited to screening; Detected cancer cases in cervical cancer screening programme; Colorectal cancer screening target population and men and women invited to screening; Colorectal cancer screening coverage by examination in target population; Colorectal cancer screening invitational coverage and coverage by examination in men and women invited to screening; Detected cancer cases in colorectal cancer screening programme. Filtered by sex, age, county and health insurance. More information about the data contained in the dataset [2].
Source of Information: The register collects data from health service providers through electronic mass requests through the health information system. Data is also inherited from the population register, the cause of death register, the cancer register and the health insurance data set of the health insurance fund via the X-tee data exchange layer.
Data level: Patient level.
Number of Records: Unknown.
Date Range: 2015 onwards.
Cancer Areas of Interest: Breast, cervical and colorectal cancer.
Data access: Partially publicly available [3], to access go to Population > Morbidity > Cancer screening programmes. Instructions to request data for restricted content [4].
Contact information: Information [5].
