QResearch-Oxford Data Linkage Project

• Research type

  Research Database

• IRAS ID

  329187

• Contact name

  Julia Hippisley-Cox

• Contact email

  julia.hippisley-cox@phc.ox.ac.uk

• Research summary

  QResearch-Oxford Data Linkage Project

• REC name

  East Midlands - Derby Research Ethics Committee

• REC reference

  23/EM/0166

• Date of REC Opinion

  10 Aug 2023

• REC opinion

  Favourable Opinion

• Data collection arrangements

  GP data

  This information is anonymised in the GP computer system and then provided by the GP computer systems provider (EMIS). It includes the following information. No information about the patients' name or address and no free text information which GPs make about consultations is included.

  • Demographics
  • Prescriptions
  • Diagnoses and problems
  • Laboratory tests
  • Clinical values
  • Symptoms
  • Consultations
  • Referrals
  Cancer Registry Data linked to QResearch

  Anonymised information is provided by NHS England on diagnoses of cancer. This is a subset of the information on the National Cancer Registry (information about the full cancer registry dataset).

  Mortality data

  Anonymised information of deaths which have been recorded on the National Death Register.

  Intensive Care National Audit & Research Centre (ICNARC) linked to QResearch

  Anonymised information is provided by ICNARC from their Case Mix Programme (CMP). The CMP is a recognised national audit of patient outcomes from adult, general critical care units (intensive care and combined intensive care/high dependency units).

  COVID test data linked to QResearch

  COVID National Immunisation Database (NIMS)

  The COVID national immunisation dataset is provided by NHS Digital for COVID-19 related research. The dataset includes the following anonymised items

  • Vaccine Date and Dose
  • Vaccine Type
  • Setting where administered

  Pregnancy Registry and congenital abnormalities

  This anonymised virtual registry, derived from a subset of GP and hospital linked records. The subset of information provided is linked to the Hospital Episode Statistics (which provides outcomes of pregnancy in England), congenital abnormalities register, mortality data.

• Research programme

  the research program including research on natural history of disease, aetiology, prevention, prediction, detection, diagnosis, management, outcomes of illness and health inequalities and associated audits/analsyes The community is academic researchers employed by UK universities

• Research database title

  QResearch-Oxford Data Linkage Project

• Establishment organisation

  University of Oxford

• Establishment organisation address

  Radcliffe Observatory Quarter

  Woodstock Road

  OX2 6GG