Re: Medication Utilizations studies

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Dear Satabdi

 

Thank you very much for your kind reply. I am also planning to study various health indicators to see the overall health outcome in a disease condition by analysing few database linkage. I am collaborating for this research work with an Australian university, which has access to few commercial, government hospital databases. Some of these databases are just a 'survey database' related to CTs, use of medication, dispensing data, etc. Hope we could share our experiences on database linkage at some other time.

 

With best wishes, Zia

 

 

On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 12:57 PM, satabdi chatterjee <satabdichatterjee26@...> wrote:

 

Hi Syed, 

Well, I have not yet conducted studies which entail database linkage..in the US, other than the federal insurance (which cover only the poor and the elderly populations), there are private insurance companies as well that maintain their own databases, where they have unique patient identifiers for their members-they have patient files, their medication files and other databases, which the researchers have to link using that identifier in order to get patient-level information. Every insured patient when fills a prescription, that information is captured by that particular insurance company. So, we have a rich source of information on the use prescription medications in general populations..the risk of adverse effects with use of particular medications..

These are very large databases, and provide a rich source of information on use of medications, hospital services etc.

The analysis is done with the help of a software (we use SAS).

If you have any further questions, please let me know.

Thanks,

Satabdi 

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