PRODDICT: CPRD (GPRD) Product dictionary

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Description

CPRD Pegasus Product (drug) dictionary

Details

A data frame with observations on the following 11 variables.

prodcode

GPRD product code, a numeric vector

multilex

Multilex product code, a character vector. Mapped to the code column in a drug codelist.

events

Number of events in GPRD, a numeric vector

prodname

Generic or proprietary product name, a character vector. Mapped to the term column in a drug codelist.

drugsubstance

Drug substance, a character vector

strength

Dosage a character vector

formulation

Drug formulation (tablets, liquid etc.), a character vector

route

Route of administration, a character vector

bnfcode

BNF codes that the drug belongs to, separated by /, a character vector

bnfheader

Text BNF header, a character vector

db

Database date, a character vector

For decoding GPRD therapy files.

Note

For CALIBER users, the tables are included in the CALIBERlookups package. External users need to obtain their own copies of the dictionaries and generate the data file using the supplied script demo(loadnewdicts).

Source

Clinical Practice Research Datalink, http://www.cprd.com.

Examples

# data(CALIBER_PRODDICT)
# print(attr(CALIBER_PRODDICT, 'VERSION'))

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