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Use of Disease Registers

In: Handbook of Epidemiology

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  • Måns Rosén

    (The National Board of Health and Welfare, Centre for Epidemiology)

  • Timo Hakulinen

    (Finnish Cancer Registry, Institute for Statistical and Epidemiological Cancer Research)

Abstract

Routine data are data collected continuously or at least repeatedly with some time intervals. They could be collected in various ways, e.g. registration by the health services or by interviews with patients or population groups. For epidemiological purposes, it is necessary that the disease cases collected can be related to a specified population base, thus providing the ability to calculate different epidemiological measures as incidence, prevalence etc. The data could then be stored and administered in registers. Health data or disease registers are restricted to persons with diseases or health-related events. The coverage can vary from a total registration to a sample of the population and from national to regional coverage. Data can be routinely collected for various reasons, from economic and administrative purposes to more strict epidemiological purposes.

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  • Måns Rosén & Timo Hakulinen, 2005. "Use of Disease Registers," Springer Books, in: Wolfgang Ahrens & Iris Pigeot (ed.), Handbook of Epidemiology, chapter 0, pages 231-251, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-540-26577-1_5
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-26577-1_5
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