Methods to establish a Pregnancy Register in the QResearch Database.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Electronic health records are increasingly used to conduct pregnancy-related research as pregnant women are under-represented in research. Creating a register of pregnancies by combining data from primary and secondary care will further facilitate research in pregnancy. This work describes the construction of an algorithm to create a unified pregnancy cohort in the QResearch database during the emergency phase of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Methods

National primary care records in the QResearch® database were linked to patient-level data from Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) datasets. Females aged 15-50 years with a pregnancy outcome recorded between 30 December 2020 and 30 September 2022 were included. Pregnancy (delivery/loss) episodes were identified and cohort dem

SUBMITTER: Snelling AJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12727747 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature