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The Japanese National Database of Health Insurance Claims and Specific Health Checkups (NDB) is a large national administrative claims database. The NDB covers more than 126 million people and 1.9 billion electronic claims annually, with data from 99% of the hospitals in Japan, thus characterizing nation-wide completeness.
- Demographic information - age group, sex, race, anonymized insurer ID, outcome (death or survival), institution's secondary medical
- Lack of access to important data
- Unclear validity of the data coding
- Lacks the exact date for medical care and pharmaceutical dispensing.
- Difficulty of making causal inferences with retrospective collected data
- Cannot determine the order of MTX dispensing and virus examination in the same month
- Enabling Patient Traceability Using Anonymized Personal Identifiers in Japanese Universal Health Insurance Claims Database
- Linkage rate between data from health checks and health insurance claims in the Japan National Database
- Linkage rate between data from health checks and health insurance claims in the Japan National Database
- Cesarean delivery rates for overall and multiple pregnancies in Japan: A descriptive study using nationwide health insurance claims data
- Incidence of fractures among patients receiving medications for type 2 diabetes or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and glucocorticoid users according to the National Claims Database in Japan
- Epidemiology and treatment outcome of pneumonia: Analysis based on Japan national database
- Analysis of the evidence-practice gap to facilitate proper medical care for the elderly: investigation, using databases, of utilization measures for National Database of Health Insurance Claims and Specific Health Checkups of Japan (NDB)
- Patient and National Economic Burden of Dengue in Japan: Results from Japanese National Claims Database
- A review of studies using the Japanese National Database of Health Insurance Claims and Specific Health Checkups
- National Database of Health Insurance Claims and Specific Health Checkups of Japan (NDB): Outline and Patient-Matching Technique