Nationwide medical registration
Landelijke Medische Registratie (LMR)
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Health and Performance
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Governance
Contact information
Department of Health and Health Care
Statistics Netherlands
Henri Faasdreef 312
2492 JP Den Haag
Netherlands
Phone: Infoservice: 003188 570 70 70
Email: info(at)cbs.nl
Timeliness, transparency
Data is collected on an irregular basis.Access to data
Data cannot be downloaded directly.
Conditions of access
Access to data requires:
(1) Access fee
(2) Official authorisation (CCS)
(3) Authorisation of register holder is required
www.dutchhospitaldata.nl
Months
Anonymised microdata
SPSS (default)
Documentation is only available in Dutch.
Coverage
Data was first collected between 1981 and 2010 (data collected in 2011 should be available in April/May 2013); data collection is ongoing and is scheduled to continue at some point in the future. It was nearly an integral observation, but in recent years 13-18% of the discharges are missing.
1981
Not applicable
Not applicable
All hospitalisations in short-stay general and university hospitals. (Semi)-private clinics are excluded.
No age restrictions
Representative for all hospitalisations in short stay general and university hospitals.
Detailed study of:
Hospitalisation; frequency, diagnosis.
de Bruin, A., Kardaun, J., Gast, F., et al. "Record linkage of hospital discharge register with population register: Experiences at Statistics Netherlands". Statistical Journal of the United Nations ECE 21 (2004): 23-32.
Data quality
Missing registrations of hospitalizations, unknown diagnosis (from 2006 onwards; 18% in 2011). Missing registrations are imputed to make a complete file, but the imputed records cannot be linked.
Change in ICD-version from 2012 onwards (ICD10). Linkable data from 1995 onwards.
Yes, except for ICD9-ICD10 change from 2012 onwards
- The information about this dataset was compiled by the author:
- Frank P. Pijpers
- (see Partners)