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Creating medical and drug code lists to identify cases in primary care databases
Author(s) -
Davé Shreya,
Petersen Irene
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.023
H-Index - 96
eISSN - 1099-1557
pISSN - 1053-8569
DOI - 10.1002/pds.1770
Subject(s) - documentation , medicine , code (set theory) , database , pharmacoepidemiology , diagnosis code , medical record , primary care , medical emergency , computer science , programming language , family medicine , pharmacology , population , environmental health , set (abstract data type) , medical prescription , radiology
Abstract This paper demonstrates how compilation of medical and drug code lists for outcomes or exposures of interest for studies using primary care databases can be carried out efficiently using Stata. Use of Stata do‐files to record and execute the commands provides good documentation and ease of replication of the procedure. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.