M.B. ROBINSON wrote:
>
> apolgies for cross posting
>
> Dr Simon Balmer, Senior Registrar in Public Health Medicine,
> Wakefield HA, asked me to post the following request:
>
> We have produced and disseminated guidelines about the management of
> heart failure to all GPs within the district, and wish to evaluate
> their impact on the prescribing of loop diuretics and ACE inhibitors.
>
> PACT data is unsuitable, so we intend to collect prescribing data
> directly from practices, hopefully from practice computer systems rather
> than case-notes.
>
> Are there any published studies of this type? - we can't find them
>
> Has anyone direct experience of this type of data collection (from
> more than one practice) - we are anxious to build on previous efforts
> rather than rediscover problems .
>
> please reply to the sender ([log in to unmask])
> Dr Michael Robinson
> Senior Lecturer in Public Health
> Nuffield Institute for Health
> 71-75 Clarendon Road
> Leeds LS2 9PL
> UK
>
> tel: 44-113 233 3464
> fax: 44-113 246 0899What about contacting the ONS (old OPCS) who are now the custodeans of
the old VAMP database. EPIC on 0171 542 7820 could tell you if they could
provide what you are wanting.
Peter
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