General Practice Research Database (UK)

The General Practice Research Database (GPRD) is a database of primary care records. It is a valuable tool for research because it contains comprehensive observational data that are collected from clinical practice. It is used in a broad range of health-related areas, namely, clinical epidemiology, disease management, disease patterns, outcomes of research, and the use of drugs.

This tool is a useful and high-value resource for and by pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies because of the person-specific, high-quality longitudinal data that enable drug safety, research, and outcomes research. This capability is enhanced by the fact that data can be obtained from hospitals or disease registries.