Clinical code usage in UK general practice: a cohort study exploring 18 conditions over 14 years.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To assess the diagnostic Read code usage for 18 conditions by examining their frequency and diversity in UK primary care between 2000 and 2013.

Design

Population-based cohort study SETTING: 684 UK general practices contributing data to the Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD) GOLD.

Participants

Patients with clinical codes for at least one of asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, diabetes, hypertension (HT), coronary heart disease, atrial fibrillation (AF), heart failure, stroke, hypothyroidism, chronic kidney disease, learning disability (LD), depression, dementia, epilepsy, severe mental illness (SMI), osteoarthritis, osteoporosis and cancer.

Primary and secondary outcome measures

For the frequency ranking of clinical codes, canonical

SUBMITTER: Zghebi SS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9328099 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature