Use of a patient linked data warehouse to facilitate diabetes trial recruitment from primary care

C J Brooks; J W Stephens; D E Price; D V Ford; R A Lyons; S L Prior; S C Bain

doi:10.1016/j.pcd.2009.06.004

Use of a patient linked data warehouse to facilitate diabetes trial recruitment from primary care

Prim Care Diabetes. 2009 Nov;3(4):245-8. doi: 10.1016/j.pcd.2009.06.004. Epub 2009 Jul 14.

Authors

C J Brooks¹, J W Stephens, D E Price, D V Ford, R A Lyons, S L Prior, S C Bain

Affiliation

¹ HIRU (Health Information Research Unit), Swansea University, Swansea, Wales SA2 8PP, UK.

PMID: 19604741
DOI: 10.1016/j.pcd.2009.06.004

Abstract

Recruitment into clinical trials from primary care may be difficult. Our aim was to use the Secure Anonymised Information Linkage (SAIL) databank to identify potential participants for two factitious trials. We identified 284 and 711 participants for each study (population=250,086). This method appears promising in identifying trial participants.

MeSH terms

Adult
Aged
Clinical Trials as Topic*
Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2
Electronics
Humans
Middle Aged
Patient Selection*
Statistics as Topic