2. Background
- Passed by the government in March 2010 and has
its own regulations, available from January 2012
- National health registry - personally identifiable data
- Consent not required - compulsory to report
- The Norwegian Institute of Public Health
responsible for data management
https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2011-12-16-1250/KAPITTEL_1#§1-4
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3. CoreRegistry
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Norwegian
Patient
Registry
Cause of
Death
Registry
National
Registry
(Central Person
Registry)
4. Norwegian
Patient
Registry
Cause of
Death
Registry
National
Registry
(Central Person
Registry)
Norwegian Stroke Research Registry
Norwegian Registry of Cardiac Surgery
National Norwegian Heart Failure Registry
Norwegian Registry for Invasive Cardiology
Norwegian Myocardial Infarction Registry
Norwegian Cardiac Arrest Registry
Norwegian Registry for Vascular Surgery
The Norwegian Pacemaker- & ICD-registry
CoreRegistry
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Norwegian Registry for Ablation Therapy and Electrophysiology
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5. Norwegian Patient Registry (NPR)
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https://helsedirektoratet.no/norsk-pasientregister-
npr/om-npr/innhold-og-kvalitet
Administrative Data: Reporting of data started with somatic diseases in 1997
and has gradually been extended with data from other sectors.
From 2008, the administrative data in the register is personally identifiable
6. Data in the Norwegian Patient Register
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Purpose: To improve the quality of health care for
people with cardiovascular disease
• Information from the registry will be used for health
surveillance, prevention, quality improvement and health
research
• It constitutes a basis for management and planning of
health services aimed at people with cardiovascular
diseases
• Can be used for monitoring of new cases and the
prevalence of these diseases in the population
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Registry
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Advantages of the joint registry model:
• Provides a legal basis for the national
medical quality registers
• Possible to coordinate data collection,
processing and analysis on various
cardiovascular diseases
• Opportunities for using already
existing data
• Increased quality through data
collection from different sources
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• Increased quality through data collection from
different sources
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Regional affiliation of quality registries:
• Benefits:
• Local academic foundation ->
increased involvement
• Closeness to clinical activities ->
relevant data with better quality
• Cooperation between different professionals
• Challenges:
• Various ICT solutions for registration
• Cooperation between different professionals
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Medical quality registries
• Designed to document treatment
outcomes, and provide a basis for
quality improvement and research
• Official status as a national
medical quality register is
approved by the Directorate of
Health
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12. Data Sources - 53 National quality registries
https://www.kvalitetsregistre.no/registeroversikt
Cerebral parese
Gastronet
Kvalitetsregister for demens
Nasjonalt Kvalitetsregister for Smertebehandling
Nasjonalt barnehofteregister
Nasjonalt hoftebruddregister
Nasjonalt korsbåndregister
Nasjonalt kvalitetsregister for barnekreft
Nasjonalt kvalitetsregister for brystkreft
Nasjonalt kvalitetsregister for døvblindhet
Nasjonalt kvalitetsregister for føflekkreft
Nasjonalt kvalitetsregister for gynekologisk kreft
Nasjonalt kvalitetsregister for lungekreft
Nasjonalt kvalitetsregister for lymfom og lymfoide leukemier
Nasjonalt kvalitetsregister for prostatakreft
Nasjonalt kvalitetsregister for ryggkirurgi
Nasjonalt kvalitetsregister for tykk- og endetarmskreft
Nasjonalt medisinsk kvalitetsregister for barne- og
ungdomsdiabetes
Nasjonalt register for KOLS
Nasjonalt register for ablasjonsbehandling og elektrofysiologi i
Norge (ABLA NOR)
Nasjonalt register for langtids mekanisk ventilasjon
Nasjonalt register for leddproteser
Nasjonalt register for organspesifikke autoimmune sykdommer
(ROAS)
Nasjonalt traumeregister
Nordisk register for hidradenitis suppurativa
Norsk Diabetesregister for voksne
Norsk Hjertekirurgiregister
Norsk MS-register og biobank
Norsk Parkinsonregister og biobank
Norsk Nyrebiopsiregister
Norsk gynekologisk endoskopi register
Norsk hjerneslagregister
Norsk hjerteinfarktregister
Norsk hjertestansregister
Norsk hjertesvikt register
Norsk intensivregister
Norsk karkirurgisk register (NORKAR)
Norsk kvalitetsregister for artrittsykdommer (NorArtritt)
Norsk kvalitetsregister for behandling av spiseforstyrrelser
(NorSpis)
Norsk kvalitetsregister for fedmekirurgi
Norsk kvalitetsregister for hiv
Norsk kvalitetsregister for leppe-kjeve-ganespalte
Norsk kvinnelig inkontinensregister
Norsk nakke- og ryggregister
Norsk nefrologiregister
Norsk nyfødtmedisinsk kvalitetsregister
Norsk pacemaker- og ICD- register
Norsk porfyriregister
Norsk register for analinkontinens
Norsk register for arvelige og medfødte nevromuskulære
sykdommer
Norsk register for gastrokirurgi (NoRGast)
Norsk register for invasiv kardiologi (NORIC)
Norsk ryggmargsskaderegister
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13. Registrere, registrere
Antall pasienter * antall kvalitetsregistre 2012-2015**
Kvalitetsregistre Pasienter Andel
0 638 494 76,3 %
1 131 281 15,7 %
2 50 254 6,0 %
3 13 372 1,6 %
4 3 049 0,4 %
5 578 0,1 %
6 70 0,0 %
7 6 0,0 %
8 0 0,0 %
Sum 837 104 100,0 %
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**Basert på data i HKR basisregisteret fra 2012-2015.
198 610 unike pasienter kvalifiserer til registrering i ett eller flere kvalitetsregistre
67 329 unike pasienter kvalifiserer til registrering i to eller flere kvalitetsregistre
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Quality Registers - should give answers on
• Which measures (diagnostics/
treatment/other) were completed?
• Were measures implemented in line with
current scientific knowledge/were guidelines
followed?
• How did it go with the patients?
• Were resources used rationally?
Quality indicators
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23. Strenghts – Population-based research
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1. Data already exist
2. Large sample size
3. Data are complete as far as the persons in the target population
- Limited/no selection bias
- No attrition (loss to follow-up) bias
- Possibility to study rare exposure and outcome measures
- Information of exposures and outcomes for the whole population
4. Data are collected independently of research questions
- Prospective data collection (min. recall-bias)
- No differential misclassification («tilfeldig misklassifikasjon»)
5. Valuable time has passed
- Possibility to study diseases in families (generation studies)
6. Adjustment for confounders available to the whole population
24. Limitations - Population-based
research
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1. Data are pre-collected by others than researchers
- Necessary information may be unavailable or misclassified
- Often hard to know exactly how data are generated
- Limited to use variables in register
- Variation in coding between persons and institutions
- Coding used in registers may not be detailed
2. Lack of confounder information
3. Missing data difficult to handle
- Difficult to know what missingness means
- Under-coverage
4. Low or unknown data quality
5. (Left truncation)
6. Data dredging and misleading post hoc analysis (“fisking”)
7. Unimportant differences become statistical significant