Background: As interrogating information from databases is an important component in pharmaco-epidemiological research, National Health Research Institutes sponsors a 90 minute symposium in the 30th ICPE International Conference to share our experience in using National Health Insurance Research Database (NHIRD) to study important health issues in Taiwan. Objectives: To share Taiwan experiences in using health insurance database to perform health research so as to benefit researchers involved in the analysis of large claims datasets. Description: Taiwan launched a single-payer National Health Insurance program on March 1, 1995. Approximately 99.5% of Taiwan ’ s 23 million population were enrolled in this program. Since year 2000, National Health Insurance Research Database (NHIRD) derived from this system by the National Health Insurance Administration (NHIA), Taiwan, and maintained by the National Health Research Institutes (NHRI), Taiwan, has been provided to scientists in Taiwan for research purposes. Using Taiwan NHIRD, the researchers have published over 1000 papers; among them many are in high impact international journals. We highlight in this symposium some of the significant research works based on NHIRD.
Date:
2014-10
Relation:
Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety. 2014 Oct;23(S1):337.
