Holding Name: CCDSS Hypertension
Year(s): 1995-2019
Dataset Number: DH01c04
Data Provider: NB Department of Health
Category(s):
Health
The CCDSS is a collaborative network of provincial and territorial surveillance systems, supported by the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC). The data is processed at the provincial level and submitted to PHAC as aggregate data for national comparisons and further study. The dataset held at DataNB is a collection of data on all residents who are eligible for New Brunswick Medicare health insurance. It can be used to generate provincial prevalence, incidence, and mortality estimates for trends in incidence, prevalence, and mortality of people with hypertension over time. To identify people with hypertension (excluding gestational hypertension), Medicare records are linked using a unique personal identifier to the corresponding physician claims, hospital separation records to identify relevant ICD codes in people 20 years or older. Data is available at the individual level and is provided by fiscal year. Variables include fiscal year, diagnosis year (first year case definition was met), sex, age, death status etc. People are included every year fiscal year following the diagnosis year.
