Welcome to Full Feature GPRD - The General Practice Research Database
The GPRD is the world's largest computerised database of anonymised longitudinal medical records from primary care. Currently data are being collected on over 3.6 million active patients (approx. 13 million total) from around 450 primary care practices throughout the UK. It is the largest and most comprehensive source of data of its kind and is used worldwide for research by the pharmaceutical industry, clinical research organisations, regulators, government departments and leading academic institutions.
The GPRD Division provides data and services to support medical and public health research in a variety of areas including:
- clinical research planning
- drug utilisation
- studies of treatment patterns
- clinical epidemiology
- drug safety
- health outcomes
- pharmacoeconomics
- health service planning
through secure, global access via the internet or via datasets on CD-ROM. This makes GPRD the GOLD Standard of research databases.
Full Feature GPRD (FF-GPRD) has been available since 2001 and has considerably enhanced features compared to the former GPRD dataset. FF-GPRD is only available through the GPRD Division of the MHRA in London, and is the ONLY source of regularly updated, validated GPRD data.
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