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Development and Validation of a Primary Care Electronic Health Record Phenotype to Study Migration and Health in the UK.
International journal of environmental research and public health - 17 Dec 2021
Pathak Neha, Zhang Claire X, Boukari Yamina, Burns Rachel, Mathur Rohini, Gonzalez-Izquierdo Arturo, Denaxas Spiros, Sonnenberg Pam, Hayward Andrew, Aldridge Robert W
Abstract excerpt
International migrants comprised 14% of the UK's population in 2020; however, their health is rarely studied at a population level using primary care electronic health records due to difficulties in their identification. We developed a migration phenotype using country of birth, visa status, non-English main/first language and non-UK-origin codes and applied it to the Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD)...
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