TY - JOUR AU - Bottle, Alex AU - Cohen, Carole AU - Lucas, Amanda AU - Saravanakumar, Kavitha AU - Ul-Haq, Zia AU - Smith, Wayne AU - Majeed, Azeem AU - Aylin, Paul PY - 2020 DA - 2020/04/20 TI - How an electronic health record became a real-world research resource: comparison between London’s Whole Systems Integrated Care database and the Clinical Practice Research Datalink JO - BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making SP - 71 VL - 20 IS - 1 AB - In the UK, several initiatives have resulted in the creation of local data warehouses of electronic patient records. Originally developed for commissioning and direct patient care, they are potentially useful for research, but little is known about them outside their home area. We describe one such local warehouse, the Whole Systems Integrated Care (WSIC) database in NW London, and its potential for research as the “Discover” platform. We compare Discover with the Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD), a popular UK research database also based on linked primary care records. SN - 1472-6947 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12911-020-1082-7 DO - 10.1186/s12911-020-1082-7 ID - Bottle2020 ER -