Bringing Cardiac Rehabilitation Closer to Patients
Year: 2026
Type: article
Abstract: During a 12-month academic sabbatical in Denmark in 2015, I was required to obtain a personal identification number, the Det Centrale Personregister (CPR) number.What initially seemed an administrative requirement provided a window into an unusually powerful research infrastructure.The CPR number provides a unique personal identifier that enables linkage across Denmark's extensive administrative and health data systems.Information on sociodemographic characteristics, including age, sex, place of residence, education, social care, employment, income, and criminal justice record, can be all directly linked at an individual level to detailed data on health care use and outcomes, including primary and secondary care contacts, prescription medicines, hospitalizations, and mortality.Such linkage, which can be performed at a national, regional, or health plan level, provides a powerful opportunity to use efficiently routinely collected datasets to robustly address important population-level questions about health. 1 The study by Bihrmann and colleagues 2Open Access.This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the CC-BY-NC-ND License, which does not permit alteration or commercial use, including those for text and data mining, AI training, and similar technologies.
Source: JAMA Network Open
Author: Rod S. Taylor
Institution: University of Glasgow
Language: English
Subfield: Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: gold
Estimated APC paid: $3,000
OpenAlex ID: W7221763035