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General description
The Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD) is a real-world research service supporting retrospective and prospective public health and clinical studies. CPRD collects anonymized patient data from a network of GP practices across the UK and encompasses 60 million patients, amongst whom 16 million are currently registered as patients. Primary care data are linked to several other health-related data to provide a longitudinal, representative UK population health dataset.
Related publications
- CPRD
- Data Resource Profile: Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD)
- How Clinical Practice Research Datalink data are used to support pharmacovigilance
- Data resource profile: Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD) Aurum
- Quality improvement of prescribing safety: a pilot study in primary care using UK electronic health records
- Limitations for health research with restricted data collection from UK primary care
- The accuracy of date of death recording in the Clinical Practice Research Datalink GOLD database in England compared with the Office for National Statistics death registrations
- Cancer recording in patients with and without type 2 diabetes in the Clinical Practice Research Datalink primary care data and linked hospital admission data: a cohort study
- Use of Topical Tacrolimus and Topical Pimecrolimus in Four European Countries: A Multicentre Database Cohort Study
- A cohort study on the risk of lymphoma and skin cancer in users of topical tacrolimus, pimecrolimus, and corticosteroids (Joint European Longitudinal Lymphoma and Skin Cancer Evaluation – JOELLE study)
Data access
Access to patient-level data is dependent on the approval of a study protocol by the MHRA-ISAC (Independent Scientific Advisory Committee) and by the CPRD for health research purposes. Researchers intending to use the data should be aware that the CPRD data files contain millions of rows of data, requiring extensive data management and an in-depth understanding of how the data are input and stored.