What's New for CPRD?

• Patient Consent - The way you record patient consent for Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD) has been updated, and is now recorded using Read codes, see CPRD Consent.

• CPRD - Your scheduled extract has been updated to include all Yellow Card data.

General

• Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD) - GPRD is now known as CPRD
• Define Collection Type - option removed
• Email option - Removed from Start Collection and Copy to Media
• Browse - Updated to a standard Windows Folder Select screen
• Error messages - updated with additional information for the Vision helpline

Start Collection

• Automatic Copy to Media - tick box removed
• Browse - button enabled and populated with the last destination used
• Removable Storage Devices - automatically detected
• .ZIP file - held in P:\Extract if there are any issue during transfer

General Collection Process

• Prefixes - automatic collection prefixes M and D are introduced
• Check for .ZIP file - to prevent an unsent .ZIP being overwritten in error
• Creation of .Zip file - at the end of every collection
• New Entities Collected

• Automatic Data Collections – You can now submit incremental data collection (IDC) files automatically. This is dependent on practice consent.
• Encryption of Data Collections – All collected data is now encrypted for transmission.
• Removable Media – As various removable media are now used for the collection and sending of data ie USB memory keys, the term ‘Tape’ has been replaced throughout by Removable Media.