CPRD

Heart failure in primary care was identified using clinically validated Read codes, mainly chapter G58. CPRD was linked to Hospital Episode Statistics for hospitalisation data and Office for National Statistics records for mortality data.…

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Heart failure in primary care was identified using clinically validated Read codes, mainly chapter G58. CPRD was linked to Hospital Episode Statistics for hospitalisation data and Office for National Statistics records for mortality data. CPRD is representative of the UK population by age, sex and ethnicity and includes sociodemographic, lifestyle, clinical, laboratory and prescribing data. The Clinical Practice Research Datalink is an anonymised UK primary care database covering more than 11.3 million patients.