Description:

International reporting requirement

Additional information:

Have_(encrypted)_NHI No
Personally identifiable (e.g. linked to NHI numbers) and longitudinal or aggregated (e.g. for planning, clinical research etc.)? No
Scope National
Does the data contain diagnoses and clinical outcomes? Does the data contain procedures, device information and medication for therapy? Does this data set have cost / price data? Info about the health conditions people have (e.g. diagnosis data)? yes but only in the form of aggregate indicators e.g. discharge rates for a variety of ICD code diagnoses and groupings . Cost/price data? The finance & expenditure part of the submission includes a range of health care financing & expenditure indicators. OECD converts some of the data provided sometimes sourcing external economic and demographic reference data to calculate indicators such: burden of out-of-pocket health expenditure, pharaceutical expenditure as %of GDP, long-term care expenditure. These indicators can then be accessed in the online database OECD.stat or through 'frequently requested data' http://www.oecd.org/document/60/0,3746,en_2649_33929_2085200_1_1_1_1,00.html an XL workbook downloadable off the OECD website, or out of the biennial OECD Health at a Glance publication (last one was for 2011). Such derived variables are also regarded as part of the OECD Health Data collection.
Presence of Data dictionary? Column headings in Excel or any kind of data model if residing in a relational database (e.g. Access, SQL Server, Oracle etc.) Yes
How often does this data set get updated? Daily? Weekly? Monthly? Quarterly? Yearly? Yearly
Brief info about the systems and processes used to collect/manage data. Q: Where the data is collected, in what form, and accessibility? The data comes from Other
Data format, e.g., data structure, data types, and storage form (relational database, Excel, csv, etc.). Other
How well the data is structured, e.g. free text VS coded text VS pick-list (drop-down list) Data format - numeric or character? Numeric