Citation: Clinical Practice Research Datalink. (2022). CPRD GOLD Small Area data (practice) January 2022 (Version 2022.01.001) [Data set]. Clinical Practice Research Datalink. https://doi.org/10.48329/AEP7-AQ95
https://doi.org/10.48329/aep7-aq95
The general practice postcode linkages are available for all practices in CPRD GOLD and CPRD Aurum and use the general practice postcode which is linked via LSOA, SOA in Northern Ireland and datazone (DZ) in Scotland. The general practice postcode linkage includes several well-known area-based measures of deprivation, including the Index of Multiple Deprivation, Townsend Deprivation Index and Carstairs Index, and Rural-Urban Clasification, which are available at the LSOA level for linkage to CPRD primary care data through the practice postcode.
Further information is available at https://www.cprd.com/linked-data.
Total number of practices (current and historic) included in the CPRD GOLD Jan 2022 database = 983.