Are routinely collected NHS administrative records suitable for endpoint identification in clinical trials? Evidence from the West of Scotland Coronary Prevention Study.

Are routinely collected NHS administrative records suitable for endpoint identification in clinical trials? Evidence from the West of Scotland Coronary Prevention Study.

Routinely collected electronic patient records are already widely used in epidemiological research. In this work we investigated the potential for using them to identify endpoints in clinical trials.The events recorded in the West of Scotland Coronary Prevention Study (WOSCOPS), a large clinical tri...

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Main Authors: Sarah J E Barry, Eleanor Dinnett, Sharon Kean, Allan Gaw, Ian Ford
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3772901?pdf=render

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