The data source contains the following information

Disease information

Does the data source collect information with a focus on a specific disease? This might be a patient registry or other similar initiatives.

No

Rare diseases

Are rare diseases captured? In the European Union a rare disease is one that affects no more than 5 people in 10,000.

Yes

Pregnancy and/or neonates

Does the data source collect information on pregnant women and/or neonatal subpopulation (under 28 days of age)?

Yes

Hospital admission and/or discharge

Yes

ICU admission

Is information on intensive care unit admission available?

Yes

Cause of death

Captured

Cause of death vocabulary

ICD-10

Prescriptions of medicines

Captured

Prescriptions vocabulary

ATC

Dispensing of medicines

Captured

Advanced therapy medicinal products (ATMP)

Is information on advanced therapy medicinal products included? A medicinal product for human use that is either a gene therapy medicinal product, a somatic cell therapy product or a tissue engineered products as defined in Regulation (EC) No 1394/2007 [Reg (EC) No 1394/2007 Art 1(1)].

Yes

Contraception

Is information on the use of any type of contraception (oral, injectable, devices etc.) available?

Yes

Indication for use

Does the data source capture information on the therapeutic indication for the use of medicinal products?

Captured

Medical devices

Is information on medicinal devices (e.g., pens, syringes, inhalers) available?

Yes

Administration of vaccines

Yes

Procedures

Does the data source capture information on procedures (e.g., diagnostic tests, therapeutic, surgical interventions)?

Captured

Procedures vocabulary

Other

Procedures vocabulary, other

Nomesco NCSP

Clinical measurements

Is information on clinical measurements (e.g., BMI, blood pressure, height) available?

Yes

Healthcare provider

Is information on the person providing healthcare (e.g., physician, pharmacist, specialist) available? The healthcare provider refers to individual health professionals or a health facility organisation licensed to provide health care diagnosis and treatment services including medication, surgery and medical devices.

Yes

Genetic data

Are data related to genotyping, genome sequencing available?

Captured

Genetic data vocabulary

Other

Genetic data vocabulary, other

OMOP Genomics

Biomarker data

Does the data source capture biomarker information? The term “biomarker” refers to a broad subcategory of medical signs ( objective indications of medical state observed from outside the patient), which can be measured accurately and reproducibly. For example, haematological assays, infectious disease markers or metabolomic biomarkers.

Captured

Patient-reported outcomes

Is information on patient-reported outcomes (e.g., quality of life) available?

Yes

Patient-generated data

Is patient-generated information (e.g., from wearable devices) available?

Yes

Units of healthcare utilisation

Are units of healthcare utilisation (e.g., number of visits to GP per year, number of hospital days) available or can they be derived? Units of healthcare utilisation refer to the quantification of the use of services for the purpose of preventing or curing health problems.

Yes

Unique identifier for persons

Are patients uniquely identified in the data source?

Yes

Diagnostic codes

Captured

Diagnosis / medical event vocabulary

ICD-10
Other

Diagnosis / medical event vocabulary, other

Source vocabulary ID’s: MIKROBI_FIN_VSSHP (microbes list), NCSP_MODIFIER_FIN (procecure modifiers from the Nomesco NCSP vocabulary), ICD-10-FIN (Finnish modification of ICD-10), PATO_DGN_FIN (Snomed II –based pathology organ-diagnosis pairs), Hilmo_eala (Finnish national medical specialty classification), UNIT_FIN (measurement units list found in data), NCSP-FIN (Finnish modification of Nomesco NCSP procedure classification), LAB-FIN (Finnish national lab test classification), LAB-FIN-VSSHP (local additions to Finnish national lab test classification), ATC.
Available in prescribed medication data: Vnr (Nordic medicine product identifiers https://www.laaketietokeskus.fi/en/pharmaceutical-information/vnr-services )

Medicinal product information

Captured

Medicinal product information collected

Active ingredient(s)
Dose
Package size
Route of administration
Strength

Medicinal product vocabulary

ATC
Other
RxNorm

If 'other,' what vocabulary is used?

Vnr (Nordic medicine product identifiers https://www.laaketietokeskus.fi/en/pharmaceutical-information/vnr-services )

Quality of life measurements

Captured

Quality of life measurements vocabulary

15D
EQ5D

Lifestyle factors

Captured

Lifestyle factors collected

Tobacco use

Sociodemographic information

Captured

Sociodemographic information collected

Age
Ethnicity
Gender
Other