Epidemiology of Chronic Diseases and Multimorbidity (EpiChron)
EpiChron is a health register-based population cohort study including all inhabitants in the north-eastern Spanish region of Aragon, registered as users of the public health system (1,253,292 individuals on 1 January 2011, approximately 98% of the total number of inhabitants in the region). The follow-up of cohort participants is conducted by annual waves of data extraction on the 1st of January each year. The study links the information contained in clinical-administrative databases from different care settings at the individual level (e.g. patient index database, primary, specialist, hospital and emergency care, and pharmacy billing databases).
Study design
Cohort - open, Registry
Number of participants at first data collection
1,253,292 (participants as of 2011)
Recruitment is ongoing
Age at first data collection
Varied (participants)
Participant year of birth
Varied (participants)
Participant sex
All
Representative sample at baseline?
98% of the total number of inhabitants in the north-eastern Spanish region of Aragon in 2011.
Sample features
Country
Year of first data collection
2011
Primary Institutions
Instituto Aragonés de Ciencias de la Salud (IACS, Institute for Health Sciences of Aragon)
Links
No website available
Profile paper DOI
Funders
Carlos III Health Institute (Instituto de Salud Carlos III, ISCIII)
Program INTERREG V-A Spain-France-Andorra of the European Commission (POCTEFA)
Ongoing?
Yes
Data types collected
- Secondary data
- None
- None
- Healthcare data
Engagement
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