National Patient Register
Patientregistret
Data available on
Perpetrator
Background information
No information collected on Background information
Relationship with victim
This means that this kind of information is not recorded by this data source.
Re-offending
Witness
Background information
No information collected on Background information
Relationship with victim/perpetrator
Incident description by witness
Children witnessing IPV incident
Incident
Code system used
- Health
Description of incident
- Date/time
- Harm/injuries
- Location
- Type of violence
Details on the patient: personal ID, age at discharge, home county, marital state, nationality, country of birth, latest emigration, latest immigration, details on the unit of care, details on the location of care, medical data.
Protection order
Civil justice data
Incident respond resources
No information collected on Incident respond resources
Medical resources such as operations etc.
Prosecution process
This administrative data source does not collect information on Prosecution process
Outcomes
Perpetrator
N. of cases resulting in arrest
List of offenses
Victim
Death as result of incident
Characteristics
Storage System
- In paper form
- Electronically (single files)
- Electronically (database)
Frequency of updating
Annually
Quality assurance process
The raw data is collected by doctors or medical secretaries from journals written for every patient leaving the hospital. It is then reported annually to the regional authority (landsting) and from there printed in a file and sent to Socialstyrelsen. It is said to work well and safe although it has to be reviewed occasionally before being entered into the database since there have been examples of columns switching place and similar mistakes. The major source of faults in the retrieving of data is 1) the possibility that different doctors/medical secretaries interpret the codes differently (especially in the area of armed sexual violence since there is no specific code for this); and 2) the risk that some victims lye about the cause of injury, and the doctor not able to identify violence as the real cause.
Comparability
- Geographical
- Over time
- None
Timeliness
> 1 year
In the first step fine, since the doctor/medical secretary write the journal and code diagnoses shortly after meeting the patient. Then there is a long time period before sending it to the regional authority, at the end of the year. Socialstyrelsen (Board on Health and Welfare) receive the data on the previous year in March.
Current developments
A major development project is ongoing, with the aim of better meeting government requirements on statistics on healthcare.
Relation with third parties
Reporter
- Victim
- Witness
- Offender
Doctor or medical secretary
