Journal
SCANDINAVIAN JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH
Volume 39, Issue -, Pages 38-41Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
DOI: 10.1177/1403494810394717
Keywords
Denmark; dispensed prescription drugs; individual-level data; nation-wide register
Categories
Funding
- Nordea Foundation for the Center for healthy Ageing
Ask authors/readers for more resources
Introduction: Individual-level data on all prescription drugs sold in Danish community pharmacies has since 1994 been recorded in the Register of Medicinal Products Statistics of the Danish Medicines Agency. Content: The register subset, termed the Danish National Prescription Registry (DNPR), contains information on dispensed prescriptions, including variables at the level of the drug user, the prescriber, and the pharmacy. Validity and coverage: Reimbursement-driven record keeping, with automated bar-code-based data entry provides data of high quality, including detailed information on the dispensed drug. Conclusion: The possibility of linkage with many other nationwide individual-level data sources renders the DNPR a very powerful pharmacoepidemiological tool.
Authors
I am an author on this paper
Click your name to claim this paper and add it to your profile.
Reviews
Recommended
No Data Available