Data Resource Profile: Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre Data Connect.

The Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre Data Connect is a data linkage resource in Australia that combines primary care, hospital, and cancer registry data for health services research. It contains de-identified data on over 3 million primary care patients, including clinical and administrative information such as hospital admissions, GP encounters, prescriptions, pathology test results, and cancer diagnoses. Researchers interested in using this resource can contact Data Connect. The article emphasizes the importance of data linkage in understanding patients' care journeys and mentions other linked data resources in Australia and the UK. Data access is provided by BioGrid Australia, ensuring data governance, ethics, privacy, and security. The article concludes by discussing the data collected in Data Connect and ongoing efforts to expand the resource. [Extracted from the article]