Nordic registers have been described as a goldmine for producing Real-World Evidence (RWE) in health and welfare research.
The benefits of national registers are well-known; these administrative registers provide comprehensive longitudinal individual-level data with complete coverage for the total population.
Today, we’d like to give special attention to the regional data available in the Nordics, which may be utilized either as a complement or standalone data source.
Regional data provides health care-related data that goes beyond what is registered in the administrative registers at national level, such as information on hospital-administered drugs, laboratory tests and test results, along with physiological measures and lifestyle habits (such as BMI and smoking).
Enriching conventional Nordic registry data with these regional sources allows for more detailed analyses of treatment patterns and clinical outcomes, and adjustment of potential confounding bias.
Are you interested in knowing more about the regional data sources in the Nordic countries, or would like to investigate the availability of certain key variables?
Don’t hesitate to reach out to Quantify – and check out our publication list to read more about the RWE produced using regional data sources, for example within the areas of osteoarthritis (BISCUITS project)
