[Translated from AFCROs website]

The attractiveness of SNDS (Health Data National System) continues to increase, and the growing number of publications based on this data confirms the richness of this database. The SNDS has become essential in the field of scientific research and offers multiple possibilities for epidemiological, pharmaco-epidemiological and medico-economic fields.
However, these data are complex and they require a certain knowledge to understand them. Although the organizations in charge of collecting this data make documentation available, to date there is no “practical guide” integrating the entire circuit for reporting data in the SNDS and recommendations on the way of working them.
The AFCROs RWD working group, which brings together expert and pioneer consulting firms, considered it important to communicate on this issue, given the proliferation of actors conducting study projects based on this data.