Using routinely collected primary care records to identify and investigate severe asthma: a scoping review

Autor: Jonathan Stewart, Frank Kee, Nigel Hart
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: npj Primary Care Respiratory Medicine, Vol 31, Iss 1, Pp 1-11 (2021)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2055-1010
DOI: 10.1038/s41533-020-00213-9
Popis: Abstract Shielding during the coronavirus pandemic has highlighted the potential of routinely collected primary care records to identify patients with ‘high-risk’ conditions, including severe asthma. We aimed to determine how previous studies have used primary care records to identify and investigate severe asthma and whether linkage to other data sources is required to fully investigate this ‘high-risk’ disease variant. A scoping review was conducted based on the Arksey and O’Malley framework. Twelve studies met all criteria for inclusion. We identified variation in how studies defined the background asthma cohort, asthma severity, control and clinical outcomes. Certain asthma outcomes could only be investigated through linkage to secondary care records. The ability of primary care records to represent the entire known asthma population is unique. However, a number of challenges need to be overcome if their full potential to accurately identify and investigate severe asthma is to be realised.
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