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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY
Volume 44, Issue 3, Pages 827-836Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyv098
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- Wellcome Trust [098504/Z/12/Z]
- Medical Research Council [MC_PC_13042, MR/K006584/1, MR/K006665/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- National Institute for Health Research [NF-SI-0510-10090] Funding Source: researchfish
- MRC [MR/K006665/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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The Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD) is an ongoing primary care database of anonymised medical records from general practitioners, with coverage of over 11.3 million patients from 674 practices in the UK. With 4.4 million active (alive, currently registered) patients meeting quality criteria, approximately 6.9% of the UK population are included and patients are broadly representative of the UK general population in terms of age, sex and ethnicity. General practitioners are the gatekeepers of primary care and specialist referrals in the UK. The CPRD primary care database is therefore a rich source of health data for research, including data on demographics, symptoms, tests, diagnoses, therapies, health-related behaviours and referrals to secondary care. For over half of patients, linkage with datasets from secondary care, disease-specific cohorts and mortality records enhance the range of data available for research. The CPRD is very widely used internationally for epidemiological research and has been used to produce over 1000 research studies, published in peer-reviewed journals across a broad range of health outcomes. However, researchers must be aware of the complexity of routinely collected electronic health records, including ways to manage variable completeness, misclassification and development of disease definitions for research.
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