Table 1

Administrative health data available via les centres d’accès aux données de recherche de l’Institut de la statistique du Québec29

Data	Source	Scope	Examples of variables
1. Services médicaux rémunérés à l’acte	RAMQ	All fee-for-service care provided by physicians in hospital, office or clinic settings.	Fee items, date of visit, physician type
2. Maintenance et exploitation des données pour l’étude de la clientèle hospitalière	RAMQ	Every hospital admission including day procedures and diagnostics.	Admission and discharge dates, diagnoses, procedures, radiology and other diagnostics, resource weights
3. Banque de données communes des urgences	MSSS	All events triaged in the emergency department including care episodes, consultations and stretcher occupant files.	Visit date, primary cause of visit, admission indicator
4. Fichier des décès du Registre des événements démographiques	MSSS	All primary causes of death.	Event date, primary cause
5. Fichier sur les services pharmaceutiques	RAMQ	Public insurance drug plan for >8000 drugs dispensed by pharmacists to Québec residents under the age of 65 not covered by a drug plan available through work, parents, spouse or professional affiliation (eg, low income and marginalised populations).	Drug dispensed, dose, quantity, unit cost, cost to payer, cost to patient
6. Fichier sur les périodes d’admissibilité à l’assurance médicaments	RAMQ	Drug prescription programmes and plans file of who is insured under what plan.	Start and stop dates of public prescription drug insurance coverage
7. Fichier d’inscription des personnes assurées	RAMQ	Registry file of all Québec residents covered by public insurance programme.	Age, sex, census-based neighbourhood income for socioeconomic status

MSSS, Ministère de la Santé et des Services sociaux; RAMQ, Régie de l'assurance maladie du Québec.