Pharmacy‐Based Medical Record Linkage Systems

Burden of Exacerbations in Patients with Moderate to Very Severe COPD in the Netherlands: A Real-life Study

“…Th is network links drug dispensing records to hospital discharge records and other data sources such as general practitioner (GP) data using probabilistic linkage (11,12). GP data, outpatient pharmacy as well as hospitalization records are available for approximately 500,000 residents in defi ned areas of the Netherlands.…”

Data systems and record linkage: considerations for pharmacoepidemiologic studies examining cancer risk

“…Formation of partnerships among organizations involved in capturing cancer-related information (e.g., cancer registries, hospitalization databases, mortality records) and drug exposures (e.g., in-patient and out-patient pharmacy databases) may facilitate the capacity of drug safety regulatory efforts and pharmacoepidemiologic research [7]. An example of a comprehensive collaborative effort is the pharmacy-based medical record linkage systems that exist in many Nordic countries [8] as well as the Netherlands [9].…”

“…An example of a comprehensive collaborative effort is the pharmacy-based medical record linkage systems that exist in many Nordic countries [8] as well as the Netherlands [9]. The Dutch PHARMO (PHARmaco-MOrbidity) is an example of a pharmacy-based medical record linkage system, which receives input from general practitioners, hospitals, laboratories, pharmacies, and perinatal and birth registries [7]. This large network was designed for use in pharmacoepidemiology studies and provides longitudinal data for over 2 million residents of the Netherlands [10].…”

Use of electronic healthcare records in large‐scale simple randomized trials at the point of care for the documentation of value‐based medicine

“…The Dutch PHARMO Record Linkage System collects information on patient demographics, drug dispensing, hospital morbidity, clinical laboratory, pathology and GP diagnoses for more than 3 million community-dwelling inhabitants of 48 geographical areas in the Netherlands [18]. A recent advance in the Netherlands is the Mondriaan project that has developed an information technology and governance infrastructure for enrichment and linkage of EHRs.…”