Development of an algorithm for ethnicity recording in cohorts from the UK Clinical Practice Research Datalink primary care and linked Hospital Episode Statistics databases.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To evaluate various prioritisation strategies within an algorithm designed to ascertain the most likely ethnicity and create a standardised methodology to benefit future research.

Design

Retrospective cohort study.

Setting

The Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD) primary care and linked Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) data sets.

Participants

The population of 54 029 174 patients included all acceptable patients registered at English practices in CPRD GOLD or CPRD Aurum from the May 2023 to May 2022 builds, respectively.

Primary outcome measure

Ethnicity data within CPRD and HES data sets were identified by employing established code lists and subsequently categorised into broader ethnic groups. Changes were made to a previously used alg

SUBMITTER: Shiekh SI 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12278151 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature