PMSI (France)

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Type of database: administrative/claims data.

Primary purpose: To function as a comprehensive national hospital discharge database that records detailed information on hospital stays across both public and private hospitals in France. Click here to learn more.

Sponsor, manager or home institution: Caisse Nationale de l'Assurance Maladie (CNAM), and Agence technique de l'information sur l'hospitalisation (ATIH). Click here to learn more. Click here to learn more.

Type of information: longitudinal. Admission date; sex; age; place of residence; number of deaths; medication use; devices; healthcare costs; length of stay; Main, related, and associate diagnosis coded in ICD-10; hospital location; number of patients admitted for medical procedures, surgical, and obstetrical wards; Type of admission and discharge; Month and year of discharge; Performed procedures; Other information. All of that information is for both public and private hospitals. Click here to learn more and click here to learn more.

Source of information: Recording of standardized medico-administrative data in a standard collection of information.

Data level: patient level.

Number of Records: Covers 98.8% of the French population as of 2017 and receives approximately 25 million records per year. Click here to learn more.

Date Range: 1996 onwards. Click here to learn more.

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

Data access: not publicly available. Data requires a grant proposal to be accessed. Instructions to request data for restricted content: Click here to access.

Contact information: Click here to learn more.