Version: 1.0.0 | Published: 8 Oct 2024 | Updated: 228 days ago
Documentation
Associated Media:
Description:
BetterRx utilises primary care electronic health records of frail and elderly (65 years+) people in the UK; containing basic patient demographics such as year of birth, sex, ethnicity, BMI and smoking history. The dataset includes medical history to identify known health conditions (e.g. diabetes diagnosis), prescription history to identify all known prescribed medications over time, linked outcomes as defined in the primary care record, hospital episode statistics (HES) and mortality (ONS), linked area deprivation defined using linked practice and patient level index of multiple deprivation (IMD).
The temporal start date of GP data varies by practice, two year historic data at the point of sign up.
Coverage
Spatial:
United Kingdom,England
Typical Age Range:
65-110
Follow Up:
Unknown
Pathway:
GP data: Primary electronic health records only
Provenance
Origin
Purposes:
Care
Sources:
EPR
Collection Situations:
Primary care - Clinic
Temporal
Accrual Periodicity:
Monthly
Start Date:
01 January 2017
End Date:
31 December 2020
Time Lag:
Other
Accessibility
Access
Access Rights:
In Progress
Access Service:
N/A - A researcher accessing the gateway and reading the description of the GP
data will not be able to apply/enquire for access.
Access Request Cost:
Still being defined
Delivery Lead Time:
Not applicable
Jurisdictions:
- GB-ENG
- GB-NIR
- GB-SCT
- GB-WLS
Data Controller:
Each lead GP for each practice.
Data Processor:
Different HDRUK centres across the North.
Usage
Data Use Limitations:
- Research-specific restrictions
- Research use only
Data Use Requirements:
Project-specific restrictions
Resource Creators:
University of Manchester
Format and Standards
Vocabulary Encoding Schemes:
READ
Languages:
en
Formats:
- text (tab-separated-values)
- text (csv)
Observations
Statistical Population
Population Description
Population Size
Measured Property
Observation Date
Persons
Better Rx BRIT2 study population.
512000
Count
01 January 2017