Comparison of antibiotic prescribing records in two UK primary care electronic health record systems: cohort study using CPRD GOLD and CPRD Aurum databases.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

We aimed to evaluate recording of antibiotic prescribing from two primary care electronic health record systems.

Design

Cohort study.

Setting

UK general practices contributing to the Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD) databases: CPRD GOLD (Vision data) and CPRD Aurum (EMIS data). English CPRD GOLD general practices were analysed as a subgroup, as all CPRD Aurum practices were located in England.

Participants

158 305 patients were randomly sampled from CPRD Aurum and 160 394 from CPRD GOLD.

Outcome measures

Antibiotic prescriptions in 2017 were identified. Age-standardised and sex-standardised antibiotic prescribing rates per 1000 person years were calculated. Prescribing of individual antibiotic products and associated medical diagnose

SUBMITTER: Gulliford MC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7311011 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature