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Norwegian Prescribed Drug Registry (Legemiddelregisteret)

Norwegian Institute of Public Health (FHI)

HDB-0118

The Norwegian Prescribed Drug Registry is the successor to the Norwegian Prescription Database (NorPD) and contains records of all prescription drugs dispensed in Norwegian pharmacies since 2004, anonymised and pseudonymised for research use. Applications for research data access must be submitted to the Norwegian Institute of Public Health.

Category

Research database

Access

By application

Region

Nordic — Norway

Data types

prescription records, dispensed drugs, pharmacy data

registry pharmacy pharmacoepidemiology Nordic

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Record HDB-0118 · last verified 2026-08-05 · listed in Research databases

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