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Newest firstPublic healthcare databases in South Korea have been distributed across disparate government agencies, requiring researchers to navigate multiple, separate institutional approval processes for data linkage. To address the systemic inefficiency, the Healthcare Big Data Linkage Platform (HCDL), jointly administered by NECA and KHIS, was established to integrate 13 databases from 10 public institutions through a Trus…
Open article record in new tab ↗BackgroundA study conducted in Norway showed that the association between pupil mental health diagnoses and educational attainment has weakened over time. One possible explanation is that earlier detection of mental health problems in recent years has facilitated earlier treatment, intervention, and educational support that might improve academic outcomes. We investigated whether the weakening association between…
Open article record in new tab ↗ObjectiveTo evaluate the validity of death ascertainment from publicly available internet media (IM) sources by benchmarking against state and Federal vital statics data for patients in two large healthcare systems from the US. MethodsWe extracted names and dates of birth and death from publicly available data--including obituaries and memorial websites--using previously developed natural language processing model…
Open article record in new tab ↗Introduction For people accessing treatment for problems with drugs other than opioids, little is known about the relationship between treatment and mortality risk, nor how mortality risk varies across treatment modalities. We addressed these evidence gaps by determining mortality rates during and after treatment for people accessing a range of treatment modalities for several drugs of concern. Methods We conducte…
ObjectivesTo address the lack of individual-level socioeconomic information in electronic health care records, we linked the 2011 census of England and Wales to patient records from a large mental healthcare provider. This paper describes the linkage process and methods for mitigating bias due to non-matching. SettingSouth London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (SLaM), a mental health care provider in southeast…
Open article record in new tab ↗ObjectivesSepsis is a growing concern for health systems, but the epidemiology of sepsis is poorly characterised. We evaluated sepsis recording across primary care electronic records, hospital episodes and mortality registrations. Methods and FindingsCohort study including 378 general practices in England from Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD) GOLD database from 2002 to 2017 with 36,209,676 patient-years…
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