アブストラクト | Aim: The impact of different strategies to handle patients with data recorded under multiple Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD) identifiers (IDs) is unknown. Patients and methods: Six approaches to handling patients appearing under multiple CPRD IDs were defined. The impact of the approaches was illustrated using a case study describing the clinical characteristics of a population of nonvalvular atrial fibrillation patients. Results: 5.6% of patients had more than one CPRD ID. Across all six approaches implemented, no material difference in the characteristics of nonvalvular atrial fibrillation patients were observed. Conclusion: While strategies which longitudinally append patient registration periods under different CPRD IDs maintain independence while using all available data, their implementation had little impact on the results of our case study. |
ジャーナル名 | Journal of comparative effectiveness research |
Pubmed追加日 | 2020/2/15 |
投稿者 | Sammon, Cormac J; Leahy, Thomas P; Ramagopalan, Sreeram |
組織名 | PHMR Ltd, Berkeley Works, London, UK.;Centre for Observational Research & Data Sciences, Bristol-Myers Squibb,;Uxbridge, UK. |
Pubmed リンク | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32056446/ |