National Register of Patients
- a unique register containing information about the Danish population’s health status over the past 25 years.
Admission for a by-pass operation, a broken arm to be set, a split eyebrow requiring stitching, or a birth. All hospital admissions, outpatient consultations and casualties processed by Denmark’s public and private hospitals are reported regularly to the National Register of Patients - resulting in an increase of some 5 million registry entries each year.

Both at the European and, indeed, international level, Denmark’s National Register of Patients is entirely unique in terms of the high quality of its patient data records (diagnoses, surgery, treatment, etc.). The register covers a period of more than 25 years and contains information about approx. 5 million patient contacts.
The information in the National Register of Patients is, for example, used in:

• computing reimbursements for hospital services, among other data, on the basis of DRG figures
• national statistics
• research and public health.
  

The National Register of Patients serves as a channel to other national patient registers. In this way clinical data is sent to other registers such as the National Register of Psychiatric Patients, the National Cancer Register and the Register of Births and Deaths.
The National Register of Patients was developed for the Danish National Board of Health.