Creating medical and drug code lists to identify cases in primary care databases

Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 704-707

  Davé, Shreya ^a   Petersen, Irene ^b  

^a MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Drug codes; GPRD; Medical codes; Primary care databases; Read codes; THIN

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT;

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; COMPUTER LANGUAGE; DATA BASE; DRUG INFORMATION; GENERAL PRACTICE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION STORAGE; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; NOMENCLATURE; PATIENT INFORMATION; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DEPRESSION; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; MEDICAL RECORD; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; REPRODUCIBILITY;

ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS; DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS; DATABASES AS TOPIC; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; HUMANS; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOFTWARE; VOCABULARY, CONTROLLED;

EID: 70349772649     PISSN: 10538569     EISSN: 10991557     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pds.1770     Document Type: Article

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