Identification of incident poisoning, fracture and burn events using linked primary care, secondary care, and mortality data from England: implications for research and surveillance

Background: English national injury data collection systems are restricted to hospitalisations and deaths. With recent linkage of a large primary care database, the Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD), with secondary care and mortality data we aimed to assess the utility of linked data for in...

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Main Authors: Baker, Ruth, Tata, Laila J., Kendrick, Denise, Orton, Elizabeth
Format: Article
Published: BMJ Publishing Group 2015
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/32371/