Identifying Care Home Residents in Electronic Health Records - An OpenSAFELY Short Data Report [version 1; peer review: 2 approved]

Background: Care home residents have been severely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Electronic Health Records (EHR) hold significant potential for studying the healthcare needs of this vulnerable population; however, identifying care home residents in EHR is not straightforward. We describe and co...

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Main Authors: Anna Schultze, Chris Bates, Jonathan Cockburn, Brian MacKenna, Emily Nightingale, Helen J Curtis, William J Hulme, Caroline E Morton, Richard Croker, Seb Bacon, Helen I McDonald, Christopher T Rentsch, Krishnan Bhaskaran, Rohini Mathur, Laurie A Tomlinson, Elizabeth J Williamson, Harriet Forbes, John Tazare, Daniel J Grint, Alex J Walker, Peter Inglesby, Nicholas J DeVito, Amir Mehrkar, George Hickman, Simon Davy, Tom Ward, Louis Fisher, David Evans, Kevin Wing, Angel YS Wong, Robert McManus, John Parry, Frank Hester, Sam Harper, Stephen JW Evans, Ian J Douglas, Liam Smeeth, Rosalind M Eggo, Ben Goldacre
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wellcome 2021-04-01
Series:Wellcome Open Research
Online Access:https://wellcomeopenresearch.org/articles/6-90/v1