When onboarding to CPRD Safe, CPRD's Trusted Research Environment (TRE), your protocol lead and the CPRD Safe programme team will create a bespoke training schedule to help you understand how to enter, use and import and export from CPRD Safe. These guides will be used and it’s worth familiarising yourself in advance.
- CPRD Safe training manuals
- CPRD Safe features and application guidance
- External guidance and resources
CPRD Safe training manuals
Using CPRD Safe - user guides
- Download: Logging into CPRD Safe (PDF, 3.21MB, 10 pages)
- Download: Your virtual machine (PDF, 2.77MB, 12 pages)
- Download: Airlock import request (PDF, 3.91MB, 15 pages)
- Download: Airlock export request (PDF, 6.91MB, 24 pages)
Managing the Workspace - Workspace owner guides
- Download: Installing and updating R packages (PDF, 1.89MB, 5 pages)
- Download: How to create a workspace (PDF, 2.2MB, 11 pages)
- Download: How to create workspace services (PDF, 4.36MB, 21 pages)
Requesting Safe Outputs guidance and procedure
- Download: CPRD Safe Outputs Guidance (PDF, 882KB, 17 pages)
CPRD Safe features and application guidance
For an overview of the features within CPRD Safe please see CPRD Safe features: a guide for users.
Access to CPRD Safe
Application for access to CPRD data is via client organisation approval, an approved RDG study, and a signed data access agreement. For more information about these steps, please see How to access CPRD data | CPRD
Use of CPRD Safe requires acceptance of the end user access agreement CPRD Safe End User Access Agreement | CPRD
For information about our data protection and processing please see Data protection and processing notice | CPRD
External guidance and resources
What training do we offer?
CPRD do not offer training or guidance for the use of statistical software or applications. Researchers are expected to have a good understanding of statistics tools available within CPRD Safe, before they can be granted access.
SACRO for safe outputs and faster output checking
All TRE users should familiarise themselves with SACRO tools.
Find out more about SACRO: Semi-Automated Checking of Research Outputs.
The University of the West of England have created useful SACRO training and user guide videos - SACRO: Semi Automated Checking of Research Outputs - YouTube
For help with using the SACRO checking tool within CPRD Safe, please refer to our user guidance above under the section Import and Export data from the CPRD Safe.
R and Python
HDR Futures offer a comprehensive suite of training programmes for R, Python and other health data science applications: Learn with HDR UK Futures - HDR UK
STATA
Stata provide online learning tools for new and experienced users: