Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD)
CPRD is a database collecting anonymised patient data from a network of over 2,000 general practice clinics across the United Kingdom for around 60 million patients, including around 18 million currently registered patients. Longitudinal primary care data is linked to a range of secondary care and other health and area-based routine datasets, such as cancer registrations, small area level data, and National Health Service (NHS) England data.
Study design
Registry
Number of participants at first data collection
60,000,000 (participants)
Recruitment is ongoing
Age at first data collection
Varied (participants)
Participant year of birth
Varied (participants)
Participant sex
All
Representative sample at baseline?
No
Sample features
Countries
Year of first data collection
2012
Primary Institutions
Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC)
Profile paper DOI
Not available
Funders
Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA)
National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR)
Ongoing?
Yes
Data types collected
- Secondary data
- None
- None
- Geographic, spatial & environmental data
- Healthcare data
- Medical birth registry
- Mortality data
- Social care data
Engagement
Keywords
Consortia and dataset groups
