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Outputs and Growth of Primary Care Databases in the United Kingdom: Bibliometric Analysis by Zain Chaudhry; Fahmida Mannan; Angela Gibson-White; Usama Syed; Shirin Ahmed; Antonis Kousoulis; Azeem Majeed is a Health Professions article available to read on EtoBox.

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## Background: Electronic health database (ehd) data is increasingly used by researchers. the major united kingdom ehds are the 'clinical practice research datalink' (cprd), 'the health improvement network' (thin) and 'qresearch'. over time, outputs from these databases have increased, but have not been evaluated. ## Objective: This study compares research outputs from cprd, thin and qresearch assessing growth and publication outputs over a 10-year period (2004-2013). cprd was also reviewed separately over 20 years as a case study. ## Methods: Publications from cprd and qresearch were extracted using the science citation index (sci) of the thomson scientific institute for scientific information (web of science). thin data was obtained from university college london and validated in web of science. all databases were analysed for growth in publications, the speciality areas and the journals in which their data have been published. ## Results: These databases collectively produced 1,296 publications over a ten-year period, with cprd representing 63.6% (n=825 papers), thin 30.4% (n=394) and qresearch 5.9% (n=77). pharmacoepidemiology and general medicine were the most common specialit

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Author

Zain Chaudhry; Fahmida Mannan; Angela Gibson-White; Usama Syed; Shirin Ahmed; Antonis Kousoulis; Azeem Majeed

Publisher

BCS Learning and Development; BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT; [Swindon]: [BCS The Chartered Institute for IT], 2015-2018.; BCS Learning and Development Limited; BMJ (ISSN 2058-4555)

Published

2017

Language

EN

Field

Health Professions (Health Sciences)