Primary Care Medicines (PCM) Dataset

Primary Care Medicines (PCM) Dataset#

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      3 sys.path.append(os.path.abspath('../../../../scripts/'))
      4 from data_doc_helper import NHSEDataSet as DS, last_modified
----> 5 ds = DS("PCM")
      6 last_modified()

File /opt/build/repo/ukllc_book/docs/scripts/data_doc_helper.py:1048, in NHSEDataSet.__init__(self, dataset)
   1046 # define std input variables
   1047 self.dataset = dataset
-> 1048 self.df_ds = get_nhse_ds(self.dataset)
   1049 self.doi = ds_doi(self.df_ds.iloc[0]["table"])
   1050 self.ed = get_ed(self.dataset)

File /opt/build/repo/ukllc_book/docs/scripts/data_doc_helper.py:879, in NHSEDataSet.__init__.<locals>.get_nhse_ds(x)
    869 """Returns DF of dataset info/metrics
    870 
    871 Args:
   (...)    875     DF: dataframe of dataset info/metrics
    876 """
    878 ds = md.get_md_api_dss()
--> 879 df_ds = ds[(ds["source"] == "NHSE") & (ds["table"] == x)]
    880 df_ds["source_table"] = df_ds["source"] + "_" + df_ds["table"]
    881 # ss = md.get_md_api_ss()[["source", "Owner"]]
    882 # df_ds = df_ds.merge(ss, on="source")

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1. Summary#

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Dataset Descriptor Dataset-specific Information
Name of Dataset in TRE NHSE_PCM
Citation (APA) Data Services, NHS England (NHSE) . (2024). NHS England: Primary Care Medicines (PCM). UK Longitudinal Linkage Collaboration (UK LLC). https://doi.org/10.83126/ukllc-dataset-00050-03
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Series NHS England
Owner NHS England, Office for National Statistics and Department of Health and Social Care
Temporal Coverage in the TRE 04/2015 - ongoing
Geographical Coverage England
Participant Count 193008
Number of Variables 57
Number of Observations 32640281
Key Link https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/data-tools-and-services/data-services/medicines-dispensed-in-primary-care-nhsbsa-data
Keywords Medicines, Prescriptions
Latest Extract Date 2024-04-26
Specific Restrictions to Data Use Research must have a focus on the safety and effectiveness of medicines as specified by the NHSBSA Medicines Data Directions: https://digital.nhs.uk/about-nhs-digital/corporate-information-and-documents/directions-and-data-provision-notices/secretary-of-state-directions/nhs-business-services-authority-nhsbsa-medicines-data-directions-2019
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2. Metrics#

Table 2: Please note, individual cohort counts of less than 10 are suppressed to 0 and are therefore excluded from total participant counts for datasets

3. Version History#

Version Number 1 2 3
Name in TRE NHSE_PCM NHSE_PCM NHSE_PCM
Version Date 21 Dec 2022 13 Apr 2023 26 Apr 2024
Number of Variables 57 57 57
Number of Rows 19239373 22859974 32640281
DOI 10.83126/ukllc-dataset-00050-01 10.83126/ukllc-dataset-00050-02 10.83126/ukllc-dataset-00050-03

4. Documentation#

We are currently building a documentation storage system, which will host relevant and useful documents related to datasets, groupings, and studies themselves. Relevant documentation for this particular dataset will go here.

5. Useful Syntax#

Below we will include syntax that may be helpful to other researchers in the UK LLC TRE. For longer scripts, we will include a snippet of the code plus a link to Git where you can find the full script

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