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National Patient Registry

Landspatientregistret

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Administrative data source
Country: Denmark
Topics:
Violence, Health
Types of GBV:
Rape, Sexual Assault (excl. rape)
The data was collected in 2013 and may not accurately represent the present situation. The examples from the United Kingdom were published before the country's withdrawal from the European Union on 31 January 2020.

Types of GBV

  • Intimate Partner Violence
  • Rape
  • Sexual Assault (excl. rape)
  • Sexual Harassment
  • Stalking

No specific registration of partner violence, no information about the relationship between the patient/victim and the offender, specific registration code for cases of sexual assault and rape

Purpose of data collection

  • Monitoring
  • Accountability
  • Contribute to other organisation database
Other purpose: 

Statistics. To get information about national health development and hospital sector.

Data available on

Victim

Background information

  • Age
  • Sex
  • Nationality
  • ID
  • Name
  • Ethnicity
  • Marital status
  • Dependants
Other: 

Based on ID additional information from the CPR-registry: address, material status, nationality and employment

Relationship with perpetrator

No

Repeatedly suffering from GBV

No

Characteristics

Storage System

  • In paper form
  • Electronically (single files)
  • Electronically (database)

Frequency of updating

Ongoing

Quality assurance process

If a researcher needs access to personally identifiable data from the National Patient Registry a permission from both the National Data Protection Agency and National Health Research services is required. In this respect, only the data that is needed to respond to the actual research hypothesis is provided.

Comparability

  • Geographical
  • Over time
  • None

Timeliness

Immediately

Additional information: 

Normally cases are registered when the patient leaves the hospital.

Current developments

The National Patient Registry will in 2016 have to renew the data supplier contract. This will an opportunity to modernize and maybe adding new data. The Danish regions are developing EPJ (Electronically Patient Journals). There might a basis for coordination.

Relation with third parties

Reported to third parties
Yes
Name of organisation: 
National Statistics Office
Used by third parties: 
Yes (all of it)

Reporter

  • Victim
  • Witness
  • Offender

To a high degree these data are used by researcher

Website

Link to website

Metadata

Organisation: 
Statens Serum Insitute (SSI)
Sector:
Health
Geographical area: 
National