Quality registers
Patient register data concerning specific conditions or illnesses are collected and processed into disease-specific registers on a national level. For example, the Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL) has several health care quality registers.
They cover these subjects:
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Diabetes
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HIV
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Kidney diseases
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Psychosis care
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Spine treatments
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Oral health
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Cardiac care
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Intensive care
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Rheumatic diseases
Quality register data contain detailed information on patients, treatments and outcomes, supporting research, monitoring and quality improvement of care.
Wellbeing services counties may also collect quality register data locally (e.g. HUS Group).