Database: Primary Care Clinical Data Base (BDCAP) (Spain)

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Type of database: administrative/claims data.

Primary purpose: Make statistics on primary level care available.

Sponsor, manager or home institution: Ministerio de Sanidad.

Type of information: longitudinal. health problems in the year of study; healthcare costs; type of medical activity; number of visits; medical procedures; medication use; Clinic parameters; comorbidities; year; sex; age; Birth country; Geographic region; Region's extent by the number of inhabitants; Annual income of patients; number of patients; The employment status; of the patients; Subpopulation by type of health problem; Year of disease initiation; Subpopulation by prescribed medication.

Data Dictionary: Primary Care Clinical Data Base (BDCAP)

Available type of information: diagnosis, year; number of visits; medical procedures; medication use; comorbidities; year; sex; age; region; income of patients; number of patients; employment status. Click here to learn more.

Source of information: Electronic medical records. Click here to learn more.

Data level: patient level.

Available Data level: regional level.

Number of Records: Around 4,900,00 people per year.

Date range: 2011 onwards.

Cancer Areas of Interest: C00-D48: All neoplasms. Click here to learn more.

Data access: partially publicly available. Click here to access. For monographic and didactic reports information click here to access. Data can be downloaded in the formats XLS and PDF. Instructions to request data for restricted content click here to access.

Contact information: Click here to access.