Finnish Care Register for Health Care (FCR)
The purpose of the FCR is to collect data on the activities of health centres, hospitals, and other institutions providing inpatient care in Finland and on the clients treated in them as well as on home-nursing clients for the purposes of statistics, research, and planning. Data on approximately 1.7 million individuals are reported to the Care Register for Health Care every year, and the number of periods of care reported amounts to over 1.5 million every year. Over 6 million outpatient visits in specialised health care are also reported to the register every year.
Study design
Registry
Number of participants at first data collection
~1,700,000 (participants per year)
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
1969 (Hospital Discharge Register)
1994 (Care Register for Health Care inception)
Primary Institutions
Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (Terveyden ja hyvinvoinnin laitos, THL)
Profile paper DOI
Funders
Ministry of Social Affairs and Health (Sosiaali- ja terveysministeriö)
Ongoing?
Yes
Data types collected
- Secondary data
- None
- None
- Healthcare data
- Social care data
Engagement
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