Introduction to Danish (nationwide) registers on health and social issues: Structure, access, legislation, and archiving

By L. Thygesen, Camilla Daasnes, I. Thaulow, H. Brønnum-Hansen. Scandinavian Journal of Public Health, 2011

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Mining electronic health records: towards better research applications and clinical care (2012, background): “Merged national registries on health and socio-economic status 16 are a valuable source of standardized, longitudinal, population-wide data for traditional epidemiological studies 17,18 .”
Data Resource Profile: The Danish National Prescription Registry (2016, methodology): “Approval by an ethics review board is not required in studies involving the NPR, as projects based solely on registry data are exempt from ethical approval according to Danish law.(47) Furthermore, the NPR cannot be accessed for studies requiring a non-anonymized version, where such approval is typi”
The Danish National Prescription Registry (2011, background): “As described elsewhere in this supplementum, researchers at authorized institutions can apply for online access to extracts of individual-level registers maintained or administered by Statistics Denmark, including DNPR [5].”
The Danish Medical Birth Register (2018, methodology): “Prior to application, the Danish Data Protection Agency should accept the project and data handling [42].”