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Revitalizing the General Practice Research Database: plans, challenges, and opportunities

Author(s) -

Wood Louise,

Coulson Rosalind

Publication year - 2001

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.608

Subject(s) - medicine , database , agency (philosophy) , majesty , presentation (obstetrics) , public health , law , nursing , surgery , computer science , political science , philosophy , epistemology

The General Practice Research Database (GPRD) is the world's largest computerized database of anonymized longitudinal patient records from general practice and is a unique public health research tool. Several issues have threatened the viability of the database in recent years; in April 1999 responsibility for its management and financial control was transferred to the UK Medicines Control Agency (MCA). This presentation outlines the MCA's plans and future vision for the GPRD. © Crown copyright 2001. Reproduced with the permission of Her Majesty's Stationery Office. Published by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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