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Responsible party: Directorate of Health
Processor: Directorate of Health
Purpose: To get an overview of primary health care activities, the reasons for communication with primary health care centres, diagnoses of health problems and solutions provided. The register is used to monitor the scope and use of services, disease frequencies and solutions, and to enable comparisons between institutions and countries.
Content: As of 2004, specific data on all contacts with primary health care. The register contains information on the use of health care services.
Period: Electronic data since 2004. Data were collected annually until 2016, but since then, they have been collected electronically and in real time.
Source of data: Electronic data is collected in real time from each health care centre in Iceland and recorded in each centre's medical record system.
Items to be recorded: The municipality of permanent residence, health care centre, date of contact, type of contact, type of employee, the reason for contact, and diagnoses and resolutions are recorded in accordance with the instructions of the Directorate of Health on the minimum registration of communication in healthcare centres.
List of variables: Register of Primary Health Care Contacts - list of variables (Icelandic)
Comparable or related data sets: Hospital Discharge Register and Register of Contacts with Medical Specialists in Private Practice.
Processing and publication: An interactive dashboard is published on the primary health care activities. Statistics from the Register of Primary Health Care Contacts are also sent to international databases. The data from the register are also used in Iceland's primary health care funding model.
History: A special database of contacts was created by the Directorate of Health in 2005 and contains data from 2004. Until 2003, the Directorate of Health collected statistical summaries from health care centres in the form of an annual report, which was published in Health Reports. Since 2016, data has been sent electronically and in real time from the health care centres’ communication logs.
