General Practice Research Database for prescribing analysis

Frischer, Martin; Chapman, Stephen; Bashford, James; Norwood, Jeff; Heatlie, Heath

doi:10.1016/s0140-6736(05)78411-7

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“…The introduction of computerised management systems has improved the feasibility, comprehensiveness and the accuracy of prescription databases in recent years [22][23][24]. The analysis we present here provides a snapshot of respiratory drug use in a defined population of northern Italy.…”

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“…As Tamblyn and his colleagues reported, drug dispensing databases may represent one of the most accurate means of determining drugs dispensed to individuals [23]. Moreover, if the database accounts for drug use of the entire population under study, this may be an extremely useful instrument for health research [24,29,30]. A limitation of the study is also its originality, the classification of severity of use, which was generated taking into account the international guidelines for chronic airflow limitations.…”

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Patterns of respiratory drug use in the Lombardy region of Italy, 1995–1997

Vegni

Wilkinson

2006

Eur J Epidemiol

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The definition of specific drug use patterns by individual can provide prevalence measures that are broad proxies for varying categories of respiratory disease. However, a very high proportion of people who receive respiratory drugs do so for one-off or very infrequent episodes of illness. Analysis of the infrequent and more regular users of respiratory drugs may be useful for comparative research.

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confidence: 99%

Patterns of respiratory drug use in the Lombardy region of Italy, 1995–1997

Vegni

Wilkinson

2006

Eur J Epidemiol

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The General Practice Research Network: the capabilities of an electronic patient management system for longitudinal patient data

Sayer¹,

McGeechan²,

Kemp³

et al. 2003

Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug

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Data derived from electronic general practice records is of sufficient quality to be used to provide national prescribing estimates and has potential value for pharmacoepidemiology and population health monitoring. Such longitudinal data has previously been unavailable in Australia. Monitoring of software usage demonstrates the evolution of the Australian GP user and will be increasingly useful in assessing and improving the quality of electronic medical records.

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