Bibliography

Research using CPRD data has informed drug safety guidance and clinical practice and resulted in over 3,500 peer-reviewed publications. The CPRD bibliography listed below is updated on a monthly basis (last updated 4 April 2024).

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2022

β-Blockers and the Risk of Depression: A Matched Case-Control Study

10.1007/s40264-021-01140-5

Authors: D. Bornand, D. Reinau, S. Jick, C. Meier

2021

β-blocker prescription is associated with lower cumulative risk of knee osteoarthritis and knee pain consultations in primary care: a propensity score matched cohort study

10.1093/rheumatology/keab234

Authors: G. Nakafero, M. Grainge, A. Valdes, N. Townsend, C. Mallen, W. Zhang, M. Doherty, M. Mamas, A. Abhishek

2018

Zoster vaccination inequalities: A population based cohort study using linked data from the UK Clinical Practice Research Datalink

10.1371/journal.pone.0207183

Authors: A. Jain, J. Walker, R. Mathur, H. Forbes, S. Langan, L. Smeeth, A. van Hoek, S. Thomas

2021

Younger people with rheumatoid arthritis are at increased risk of fracture even before age 50 years: a population-based cohort study

10.1007/s00198-021-05862-1

Authors: J. Erwin, D. Enki, A. Woolf

2019

Workload impact of the Quality and Outcomes Framework for patients with diabetes: an interrupted time series in general practice

10.3399/bjgp19X704645

Authors: C. Gilbert, V. Allgar, T. Doran

2021

Women with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome have an increased risk of major cardiovascular events: a population study

10.1210/clinem/dgab392

Authors: T. Berni, C. Morgan, D. Rees

2024

Within-episode repeat antibiotic prescriptions in patients with respiratory tract infections: A population-based cohort study

10.1016/j.jinf.2024.106135

Authors: A. Lalmohamed, R. Venekamp, A. Bolhuis, P. Souverein, Jhhm van de Wijgert, M. Gulliford, A. Hay

2014

Withdrawing performance indicators: retrospective analysis of general practice performance under UK Quality and Outcomes Framework

10.1136/bmj.g330

Authors: E. Kontopantelis, D. Springate, D. Reeves, D. Ashcroft, J. Valderas, T. Doran

2004

Why has antibiotic prescribing for respiratory illness declined in primary care? A longitudinal study using the General Practice Research Database

10.1093/pubmed/fdh160

Authors: M. Ashworth, R. Latinovic, J. Charlton, K. Cox, G. Rowlands, M. Gulliford

1998

Why are patients prescribed proton pump inhibitors? Retrospective analysis of link between morbidity and prescribing in the General Practice Research Database

Authors: J. Bashford, J. Norwood, S. Chapman

2003

Who receives lipid-lowering drugs: the effects of comorbidities and patient characteristics on treatment initiation

Authors: C. Yang, S. Jick, M. Testa

2016

Which Patients with Giant Cell Arteritis Will Develop Cardiovascular or Cerebrovascular Disease? A Clinical Practice Research Datalink Study

10.3899/jrheum.151024

Authors: J. Robson, A. Kiran, J. Maskell, A. Hutchings, N. Arden, B. Dasgupta, W. Hamilton, A. Emin, D. Culliford, R. Luqmani

2017

Where are the opportunities for an earlier diagnosis of primary intracranial tumours in children and young adults?

10.1016/j.ejpn.2016.10.010

Authors: T. Chu, A. Shah, D. Walker, M. Coleman

2016

When are breast cancer patients at highest risk of venous thromboembolism? A cohort study using English health care data

10.1182/blood-2015-01-625582

Authors: A. Walker, J. West, T. Card, C. Crooks, C. Kirwan, M. Grainge

2019

What were the impacts of the Committee on Safety of Medicines warning and publication of the NICE guidelines on trends in child and adolescent antidepressant prescribing in primary care? A population based study

10.1136/bmjopen-2018-028201

Authors: P. Tiffin, J. Mediavilla, H. Close, A. Kasim, P. Welsh, L. Paton, J. Mason

2019

What to do with diabetes therapies when HbA1c lowering is inadequate: add, switch, or continue? A MASTERMIND study

10.1186/s12916-019-1307-8

Authors: A. McGovern, J. Dennis, B. Shields, A. Hattersley, E. Pearson, A. Jones

2012

What next after metformin? A retrospective evaluation of the outcome of second-line, glucose-lowering therapies in people with type 2 diabetes

10.1210/jc.2012-3034

Authors: C. Morgan, C. Poole, M. Evans, A. Barnett, S. Jenkins-Jones, C. Currie

2020

What Next After Metformin in Type 2 Diabetes? Selecting the Right Drug for the Right Patient

10.1007/s13300-020-00834-w

Authors: W. Strain, C. Tsang, M. Hurst, P. McEwan, M. Unadkat, S. Meadowcroft, R. Shardlow, M. Evans

2015

What is the risk of having a total hip or knee replacement for patients with lupus?

10.1177/0961203314547894

Authors: S. Mukherjee, D. Culliford, N. Arden, C. Edwards

2020

What is the optimal blood pressure level for patients with atrial fibrillation treated with direct oral anticoagulants?

10.1097/hjh.0000000000002487

Authors: J. Minhas, B. Coles, A. Mistri, D. Eveson, S. Hussain, J. Potter, K. Khunti, T. Robinson

2021

What is the incidence of methotrexate or leflunomide discontinuation related to cytopenia, liver enzyme elevation or kidney function decline?

10.1093/rheumatology/keab254

Authors: G. Nakafero, M. Grainge, T. Card, C. Mallen, W. Zhang, M. Doherty, M. Taal, G. Aithal, A. Abhishek

2019

What is the incidence of late detection of developmental dysplasia of the hip in England?

10.1302/0301-620x.101b3.bjj-2018-1331.r1

Authors: C. Broadhurst, A. Rhodes, P. Harper, D. Perry, N. Clarke, A. Aarvold

2018

What is the impact of regulatory guidance and expiry of drug patents on dementia drug prescriptions in England? A trend analysis in the Clinical Practice Research Datalink

10.1186/s13195-018-0379-6

Authors: V. Walker, N. Davies, P. Kehoe, R. Martin

2008

What is the harm-benefit ratio of Cox-2 inhibitors?

10.1093/ije/dym296

Authors: T. van Staa, L. Smeeth, I. Persson, J. Parkinson, H. Leufkens

2004

What has happened to antimicrobial usage in primary care in the United Kingdom since the SMAC report? - description of trends in antimicrobial usage using the General Practice Research Database

10.1093/pubmed/fdh179

Authors: G. Smith, S. Smith, H. Heatlie, J. Bashford, J. Hawker, D. Ashcroft, D. Millson, N. Verlander, R. Warren

2009

What happens to new-onset headache in children that present to primary care? A case-cohort study using electronic primary care records

10.1111/j.1468-2982.2009.01872.x

Authors: D. Kernick, S. Stapley, J. Campbell, W. Hamilton

2020

What are the implications of using individual and combined sources of routinely collected data to identify and characterise incident site-specific cancers? a concordance and validation study using linked English electronic health records data

10.1136/bmjopen-2020-037719

Authors: H. Strongman, R. Williams, K. Bhaskaran

2015

What are the effects of varenicline compared with nicotine replacement therapy on long-term smoking cessation and clinically important outcomes? Protocol for a prospective cohort study

10.1136/bmjopen-2015-009665

Authors: N. Davies, G. Taylor, A. Taylor, K. Thomas, F. Windmeijer, R. Martin, M. Munafo

2020

Weight-lowering effects of glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists and detection of breast cancer among obese women with diabetes

10.1097/ede.0000000000001196

Authors: C. Santella, H. Yin, B. Hicks, O. H. Y. Yu, N. Bouganim, L. Azoulay

2021

Weight loss and risk reduction of obesity-related outcomes in 0.5 million people: evidence from a UK primary care database

10.1038/s41366-021-00788-4

Authors: C. Haase, S. Lopes, A. Olsen, A. Satylganova, V. Schnecke, P. McEwan

2021

wEight chanGes, caRdio-mEtabolic risks and morTality in patients with hyperthyroidism (EGRET): a protocol for a CPRD-HES linked cohort study

10.1136/bmjopen-2021-055219

Authors: B. Torlinska, J. Hazlehurst, K. Nirantharakumar, G. Thomas, J. Priestley, S. Finnikin, P. Saunders, K. Abrams, K. Boelaert

2021

Weight change, cardio-metabolic risk factors and cardiovascular incidence in people with serious mental illness: protocol of a population-based cohort study in the UK from 1998 to 2020

10.1136/bmjopen-2021-053427

Authors: C. Lee, F. Waite, M. Smith, M. Gao, C. Bankhead, P. Aveyard, C. Piernas

2012

Weight change in people with type 2 diabetes: secular trends and the impact of alternative antihyperglycaemic drugs

10.1111/j.1463-1326.2011.01552.x

Authors: C. Morgan, S. Jenkins-Jones, M. Evans, A. Barnett, C. Poole, C. Currie

2023

Weight change and risk of obesity-related complications: A retrospective population-based cohort study of a UK primary care database

10.1111/dom.15154

Authors: K. MedSci, V. Schnecke, C. Haase, N. Harder-Lauridsen, N. Rathor, K. Sommer, C. Morgen

2016

Weight change and healthcare resource use in English patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus initiating a new diabetes medication class

10.1111/ijcp.12746

Authors: B. Blak, U. Rigney, C. Sternhufvud, J. Davis, N. Hammar

2019

Weight change and blood glucose concentration as markers for pancreatic cancer in subjects with new-onset diabetes mellitus: A matched case-control study

10.1016/j.pan.2019.03.006

Authors: A. Mueller, C. Meier, S. Jick, C. Schneider

2011

Weight and glycaemic control in type 2 diabetes: what is the outcome of insulin initiation?

10.1111/j.1463-1326.2011.01413.x

Authors: L. Watson, B. Wilson, J. Alsop, S. Kumar

2021

Vertebral fracture as a risk factor for self-harm: a retrospective cohort study

10.1186/s12891-021-04631-9

Authors: J. Prior, F. Crawford-Manning, R. Whittle, A. Abdul-Sultan, C. Chew-Graham, S. Muller, T. Shepherd, A. Sumathipala, C. Mallen, Z. Paskins

2016

Ventricular tachyarrhythmia and sudden cardiac death with domperidone use in Parkinson\textquoterights disease

10.1111/bcp.12964

Authors: C. Renoux, S. Dell'Aniello, P. Khairy, C. Marras, S. Bugden, T. Turin, L. Blais, H. Tamim, C. Evans, R. Steele, C. Dormuth, P. Ernst

2019

Venous thromboembolism in patients with gout and the impact of hospital admission, disease duration and urate-lowering therapy

10.1503/cmaj.180717

Authors: A. Sultan, S. Muller, R. Whittle, E. Roddy, C. Mallen, L. Clarson

2017

Venous thromboembolism in adults screened for sickle cell trait: a population-based cohort study with nested case-control analysis

10.1136/bmjopen-2016-012665

Authors: I. Little, Y. Vinogradova, E. Orton, J. Kai, N. Qureshi

2023

Venous thromboembolism following colectomy for diverticular disease: an English population-based cohort study

10.1007/s00423-023-02920-6

Authors: Akds Yapa, D. Humes, C. Crooks, C. Lewis-Lloyd

2004

Venous thromboembolism associated with cyproterone acetate in combination with ethinyloestradiol (Dianette): observational studies using the UK General Practice Research Database

10.1002/pds.896

Authors: H. Seaman, C. de Vries, R. Farmer

2017

Venous thromboembolism and mortality in breast cancer: cohort study with systematic review and meta-analysis

10.1186/s12885-017-3719-1

Authors: U. Khan, A. Walker, S. Baig, T. Card, C. Kirwan, M. Grainge

2007

Venous thromboembolism and cyproterone acetate in men with prostate cancer: a study using the General Practice Research Database

10.1111/j.1464-410X.2007.06859.x

Authors: H. Seaman, S. Langley, R. Farmer, C. de Vries

2000

Venous thromboembolism and combined oral contraceptives: does the type of progestogen make a difference?

Authors: R. Lawrenson, R. Farmer

2002

Venous leg ulcer: incidence and prevalence in the elderly

Authors: D. Margolis, W. Bilker, J. Santanna, M. Baumgarten

2005

Variations in antibiotic prescribing and consultation rates for acute respiratory infection in UK general practices 1995-2000

Authors: M. Ashworth, J. Charlton, K. Ballard, R. Latinovic, M. Gulliford

2014

Variation in the risk of venous thromboembolism in people with colorectal cancer: a population-based cohort study from England

Authors: A. Walker, J. West, T. Card, D. Humes, M. Grainge

2015

Variation in the risk of venous thromboembolism following colectomy

10.1002/bjs.9923

Authors: D. Humes, A. Walker, J. Blackwell, B. Hunt, J. West