Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD) data services are delivered by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency with support from the National Institute for Health and Care Research. Our data services offer a quality-assured source of longitudinal and representative, real-time UK population health data, for epidemiological and pharmacoepidemiological research. CPRD data are used worldwide by regulators, academic researchers and the life science industry for observational and electronic healthcare record (EHR) enabled interventional public health studies. Research using CPRD data and services has informed clinical guidance and best practice, resulting in over 3,000 peer-reviewed publications investigating drug safety, use of medicines, effectiveness of health policy, health care delivery and disease risk factors. CPRD data are sourced from a UK-wide network of over 2,000 primary care practices and include 60 million patients of which 18 million are currently registered active patients with at least 20 years of follow-up for 25% of the patients. CPRD primary care patient data can be linked to secondary care and other health and area-based datasets. The CPRD database contains coded and anonymised EHR data capturing information on:
- Demographic characteristics
- Diagnoses and symptoms
- Drug exposures
- Vaccination history
- Laboratory tests
- Referrals to hospital and specialist care
Please see below for more information:
https://cprd.com/primary-care-data-public-health-research
https://cprd.com/observational-research
https://cprd.com/interventional-studies
