Hospitals and Premises of Self-employed Healthcare Practitioner - Statistics

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Responsible party: Directorate of Health

Processor: Directorate of Health

Purpose: To obtain an overview of the activities of health institutions, the health problems of those who use the services, and the solutions provided. The register helps monitor the scope and use of the service, for the frequency of diseases and solutions, and for comparisons between institutions and countries.

Content: Defined data for all discharges in Icelandic health institutions from 1999 onwards. Data on the activities of outpatient departments and emergency departments since 2010.

Period: Electronic file as of 1999. Annual data until 2010; as of 2011, data from hospitals and health institutions have been submitted electronically and in real-time.

Source of data: Data is collected in real-time from hospitals and health institutions, where it is recorded in electronic medical records.

Items to be recorded: The identity of the health institution, discharges and the date of arrival at the outpatient unit, diagnoses, surgical procedures, etc.

List of variables: Hospital Discharge Register - list of variables (Icelandic)

Comparable or related databases: Register of Primary Health Care Contacts and Register of Contacts with Medical Specialists in Private Practice. Similar registers are maintained in Nordic countries.

Processing and publication: Statistics on discharges, bed days, diseases, and surgical procedures are published on the Directorate of Health's webpage. Data from the Hospital Data Register is also used for scientific research.

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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 centers, diagnoses of health problems and solutions provided. The register is used to monitor the scope and use of the services, frequency of diseases and solutions, and for 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, data has been collected electronically and in real-time.

Source of data: Electronic data is collected in real-time from each health care centre in Iceland where it is recorded in the medical record system of each center.

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, diagnoses and resolutions are recorded, by the instructions of the Directorate of Health on 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 is also used in the primary health care funding model in Iceland.

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 centers 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 centers’ communication logs.

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Responsible party: Directorate of Health

Processor: Directorate of Health

Purpose: To monitor the frequency of terminations of pregnancy in Iceland by age groups, residence, etc., and compare the frequency between countries. Information from the register is a guide in prevention work.

Content: Certain data from 1984 on all terminations of pregnancy in Iceland.

Period: Electronic register as of 1984.

Source of data: Until 2018, and in accordance with Act No. 25/1975, certain information was recorded by an application sent to the Directorate of Health after each procedure. As of 2020 and following the new Termination of Pregnancy Act, No. 43/2019, the Medical Director of Health's Register of Terminations of Pregnancy has been based on diagnoses (ICD-10) and surgical codes (NCSP) concerning the intervention in question and recorded in electronic medical health records. The data is sent electronically to the Directorate of Health.

Items to be recorded: Until 2018: age, municipality, employment status, marital status, contraception, reasons for termination of pregnancy, gestational age, health institution, date, and type of procedure. As of 2020: age, municipality, health institution, date, type of surgery, and gestational age.

List of variables: Register of Terminations of Pregnancy - list of variables (Icelandic)

Comparable or related data sets: Comparable registers are maintained in Nordic countries.

Processing and publication: Statistics on terminations of pregnancy are published on the Directorate of Health's webpage.