Care Register for Health Care
The Care Register for Health Care, formerly known as the Finnish Hospital Discharge Register (FHDR), is one of the oldest individual level hospital discharge registers covering an entire country in the world. The Register contains nationwide linkable data on all inpatient hospital discharges with a personal identification code in Finland since 1969, and data has been intensively used in health research. Since 1956, various kinds of samples have been collected, and since 1967, full nationwide collection has been continuous. In 2010, the register had over 1.2 million discharge records.
Study design
Registry, Cohort - open
Number of participants at first data collection
752,416 (participants)
Recruitment is ongoing
Age at first data collection
Varied (participants)
Participant year of birth
Varied (participants)
Participant sex
All
Representative sample at baseline?
No
Sample features
Country
Year of first data collection
1956
Primary Institutions
Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (Terveyden ja hyvinvoinnin laitos, THL)
Links
thl.fi/en/statistics-and-data/data-and-services/register-descriptions/care-register-for-health-care
Profile paper DOI
Funders
National Institute for Health and Welfare
Ongoing?
Yes
Data types collected
- Secondary data
- None
- None
- Healthcare data
- Mortality data
Engagement
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