Identification of mental health and quality of life outcomes in primary care databases in the UK: a systematic review.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To summarise the definitions and combinations of codes used to identify outcomes of anxiety, depression, fatigue, cognitive dysfunction (including mild cognitive dysfunction and dementia), sexual dysfunction, pain, sleep disorders, and fatal and non-fatal self-harm in studies using electronic health records from primary care databases in the UK.

Design

Systematic review.

Data sources

Medline, Embase and lists of publications of the main primary care databases in the UK.

Eligibility criteria

Included data from a UK primary care database and studied outcome(s) of interest.

Data extraction and synthesis

We abstracted information on the outcomes definition and codelists. When necessary, authors were contacted to request codelists.

Results

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SUBMITTER: Carreira H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6609128 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature