Population-level administrative and reportable disease databases that will be used in this study (British Columbia, Canada)
| Database (reference) | Database description and summary of variables included for this study | Date range |
| Health Care and Health Services Data | ||
| Medical Services Plan (MSP) Payment Information File74 | Billing records for all medically necessary services provided by fee-for-service physicians. Includes PHN, service dates, up to five ICD-9/ICD-10 diagnostic codes, MSP-specific fee-item codes and physician specialties. | 01 January 2003 to 31 December 2016 |
| Discharge Abstracts Database (Hospital Separations)75 | Data on discharges, transfers and deaths of inpatients and day surgery patients from acute care hospitals in British Columbia; does not include emergency room visits. Includes PHN, admission and discharge dates, up to 25 ICD-10-CA diagnostic codes, service use and procedure codes, newborn and maternal data, discharge status and province issuing healthcare number. | 01 January 2003 to31 December 2016 |
| PharmaNet76 | All prescriptions (for drugs and medical supplies) dispensed from community pharmacies and from hospital outpatient pharmacies for patient use at home, in British Columbia. Includes PHN, date of dispensing, quantity, dose, costs/fees, the type of prescribing practitioner and the Drug Information Number (or Product Information Number) assigned by Health Canada. | 01 January 2003 to 31 December 2016 |
| Population and Vital Statistics Data | ||
| Vital Statistics Deaths77 | All deaths registered in British Columbia. Includes PHN, time and place data, and ICD-10 codes for the nature and causes of death. | 01 January 2005 to 31 December 2016 |
| Vital Statistics Stillbirths78 | All stillbirths registered in British Columbia. Includes the mother’s PHN, time and place data, number of stillborn and live born children in the event, gestation period and ICD-10 codes for the underlying cause of stillbirth. | 01 January 2005 to 31 December 2016 |
| Consolidation File79 | Population Data BC’s central demographics file for research requests, containing all individuals who are eligible to receive services in British Columbia. Includes PHN, age, sex, neighbourhood income deciles, and local health authority area, as well as the date and number of days registered in the provincial health insurance programme. | 01 January 2003 to 31 December 2016 |
| Statistics Canada Income Bands80 | 1000 income bands that contain information about the six-digit postal code area in which the individual resides. Includes the average and median equivalised disposable income (derived from Statistics Canada tax-filer data, and available for the years 1992, 2002 and 2006), and the number of families, adults and children in the area. | 2002, 2006 |
| Reportable Disease Data | ||
| Panorama Public Health Information System | All cases of the following 14 reportable diseases reported in British Columbia: Clostridium botulinum, Campylobacter, Cryptosporidium, Cyclospora, Giardia, hepatitis A virus, Listeria, non-typhoidal Salmonella spp, Salmonella Typhi, Salmonella Paratyphi, STEC, Shigella, Vibrio parahaemolyticus and Yersinia. Includes PHN, onset date, reported date, health authority and aetiological agent. | 01 January 2005 to 31 December 2014 |
BC, British Columbia; CA, Canada-specific modification of ICD-10; ICD, International Classification of Diseases; PHN, Personal Health Number; STEC, Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli.