Pooling of primary care electronic health record (EHR) data on Huntington’s disease (HD) and cancer: establishing comparability of two large UK databases

Objectives To explore whether UK primary care databases arising from two different software systems can be feasibly combined, by comparing rates of Huntington’s disease (HD, which is rare) and 14 common cancers in the two databases, as well as characteristics of people with these conditions.Design D...

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Main Authors: Rachael Williams, Krishnan Bhaskaran, Ian J Douglas, Daniel Dedman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMJ Publishing Group 2024-02-01
Series:BMJ Open
Online Access:https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/14/2/e070258.full