An algorithm to identify medical practices common to both the General Practice Research Database and The Health Improvement Network database

Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 770-774

  Cai, Bing ^a   Xu, Weifeng ^b   Bortnichak, Edward ^b   Watson, Douglas J ^b  

^a PFIZER INC   (United States)

^b MERCK RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Database research; Electronic medical records; GPRD; Pharmacoepidemiology; Physician practice; THIN

Indexed keywords

CELECOXIB; ETORICOXIB;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CLINICAL DATA REPOSITORY; DATA BASE; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; GENERAL PRACTICE; GENERAL PRACTICE RESEARCH DATABASE; HUMAN; MEDICAL PRACTICE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THE HEALTH IMPROVEMENT NETWORK DATABASE;

EID: 84863538202     PISSN: 10538569     EISSN: 10991557     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pds.3277     Document Type: Article

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