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The coding of migration status in English primary care from 2011 to 2024: a pilot use of Open Code Counts

2025-07-25 primary care research Title + abstract only
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BackgroundThe migration status of the 9.8 million migrants living in England is not systematically recorded in primary care electronic health records (EHRs). Codelist approaches enable us to create cohorts of individuals who have had a predefined, optional migration-related code (e.g. "refugee") added to their EHR. AimsWe aimed to explore the use of migration-related SNOMED CT codes to inform future research using primary care data. Design and SettingWe used our Open Code Counts tool and R pac...

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