Idb-data-sets

National IDB File Information (Minimum Data Set)

1	Country	Norway
2	Year	2012
3	National Register Name	Norwegian Patient Register (NPR)
4	Purpose of the register	In 2007, the Parliament decided that NPR should be a central health register collecting also the patients unique personal number. Injury data could be collected without the consent of the patient. From 2009, this regulation was effected.
5	Scope of the register	All injuries in all agegroups is to be registered
6	Data file name (MDS)	13_10747-JAMIE_5.txt
7	Date of creation of MDS file	20140521
8	Range of data of attendance	20120101 - 20121231
9	Original coding dictionary	A Norwegian coding maual translated into The new Minimum Data Set Injury Data Base (IDB-MDS) September 2012.
10	Dictionary modifications	Norwegian coding manual is more comprehenseive than IDB-MDS. The version used to day is from February 2011.
11	Bridge coding applied	Bridge coding table ICD10 > MDSbreceived from Bjarne Laursen, DK
12	No. of records in the data file	26716
13	No. of MDS reference hospitals	15 of total 22 hospials
14	Geographic scope	The whole of Norway
15	Hospital characteristics used for a representative sample of hospitals	The 15 hospitals are representative for the four hospital regions of Norway: North: 1, Middle: 3, West 3, South-East: 8
16	Sampling of cases within hospitals	Various amount of completeness i the hospitals. No known bias.
17	Percentage of admissions in data file	21.1%
18	Relative sample size (admissions)	In this sample 5681 adminssions. Total admissions 2012 in hosptials with injury diagnosis 61428, i.e 9,2%
19	Relative sample size (ambulatory treatments)	In this sample 21085 ambulatory treatments. Total ambulatory treatments 2012 in hosptials with injury diagnosis 238433, i.e 8,8%
20	Minimum Quality Control Checks	n
21	Average percentage of “unknown””	2.4%
22	Method for extrapolation from sample to national incidence	This samplew is assessed to be representative for Norway. Number of injuries treated in hospitals (in- and out-patients) was 299 852. This is unique injuries as controls are deleted. Considering the total population beolw, crude rate of hospital treated injuries in Norway 2012 is 6.0%.
23	Reference population data provided	Population of Norway 2012 was 4 985 870
24	(Eventual) additional comments (for the user):	A just published report showing Injury pattern in Norway: (http://www.regjeringen.no/nb/dep/hod/dok/rapporter_planer/rapporter/2014/Skadebildet-i-Norge.html?id=761037) tells that there is anually 540 000 medical treated injuries in Norwaay. That means that ab. 240 000 injuries are treated by GPs, and not transferred to hospials. That should indicate a national incidence of medical treated injuries in Norway of 10.8%. The pattern of patients treated by GPs is not known yet.
25	Responsible data administrator (organization)	Helsedirektoratet – Norwegian Directorate of Health, Norwegian Patient Register – Nasjonalt pasient register http://helsedirektoratet.no/kvalitet-planlegging/norsk-pasientregister-npr/Sider/default.aspx
26	Contact: Responsible person	Stian Thoresen Aspenes Norwegian Patient Register, telephone: [phone] eMail address: [e-mail]
27	Signature	J. Lund
28	Date of completion of this file	20140530