Linkage of primary care prescribing records and pharmacy dispensing Records in the Salford Lung Study: application in asthma.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Records of medication prescriptions can be used in conjunction with pharmacy dispensing records to investigate the incidence of adherence, which is defined as observing the treatment plans agreed between a patient and their clinician. Using prescribing records alone fails to identify primary non-adherence; medications not being collected from the dispensary. Using dispensing records alone means that cases of conditions that resolve and/or treatments that are discontinued will be unaccounted for. While using a linked prescribing and dispensing dataset to measure medication non-adherence is optimal, this linkage is not routinely conducted. Furthermore, without a unique common event identifier, linkage between these two datasets is not straightforward.

Methods

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SUBMITTER: Tibble H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7731758 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature