Estonian Drug Treatment Register
The Estonian Drug Treatment Register collects data on the treatment of mental and behavioral disorders due to drug use in Estonia.
Why is the register needed?
- To analyze the occurrence of drug use
- To predict the quantity of health care services
- To shape the health policy
- To obtain information on psychoactive substances on the drug market
- To perform statistics and research
What data do we collect?
- Patient’s name, personal identification code, socio-demographic background
- Risk behavior (age at first drug use, primary drug used, frequency of use, overdose experience)
- Drug treatment (primary diagnosis, type of treatment, medications, start and end date of a treatment episode)
- Contributory diagnoses
- Date and cause of death
How do we collect data?
Psychiatric health care providers have statutory obligation to send an e-notification to the register when starting or finishing a drug treatment episode.
Publication of data
- Aggregated data are published in the health statistics and health research database
- Data are transmitted to international organizations
