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"An incident cohort study of patients with angina identified in primary care" by Dr Brian Buckley, Cochrane Fellow and Senior Research Fellow in Primary Care, National University of Ireland, Galway and Honorary Research Fellow, University of Aberdeen

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Date: February 5, 2010 (Friday)
Time: 12:30 – 14:00 (sandwich lunch from 12:30 –12:45; seminar begins at 12:45)
Venue: Seminar Room 6, LG1/F, Room LLG-S6, Laboratory Block, Faculty of Medicine
Building, 21 Sassoon Road, Pokfulam, Hong Kong

Abstract:

For some years medical informatics specialists, information technologists, clinicians and researchers in Scotland have worked to develop systems which enable routinely collected and reported clinical data from primary care, hospital settings and death registers to be linked by use of anonymous identifier codes. This has enabled datasets to be created which represent the complete clinical histories of many thousands of people over many years. The first study to emerge from the programme of work was published in 2009 in the British Medical Journal. Filling a gap in the evidence base that had been identified for many years – the need for a large population-based prognostic study in angina -the study identified every patient who was given a new diagnosis of angina in 40 primary care practices in Scotland between 1998 and 2001 and followed each for exactly five years from diagnosis or to death. Men were found to be nearly three times more likely than women to die a heart disease related death, and twice as likely to have a myocardial infarction. A number of risk factors were associated with events and surgical treatments showed no benefits in terms of survival. In this seminar, Dr Brian Buckley, will describe the work with these databases and look at some of the studies that are being conducted to explore their potential.

Bio-sketch:

Dr Brian Buckley is a Cochrane Fellow and Senior Research Fellow in Primary Care at the National University of Ireland, Galway and an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Aberdeen. Research interests include epidemiological and prognostic work, the identification and prioritization of research needs and health technology assessment. Current work includes the use of routinely reported clinical data for prognostic research, research into public attitudes towards the use of their personal medical information and systematic reviewing for the Cochrane Collaboration.