Journal article
Determinants and extent of weight recording in UK primary care: an analysis of 5 million adults' electronic health records from 2000 to 2017
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BACKGROUND:Excess weight and unexpected weight loss are associated with multiple disease states and increased morbidity and mortality, but weight measurement is not routine in many primary care settings. The aim of this study was to characterise who has had their weight recorded in UK primary care, how frequently, by whom and in relation to which clinical events, symptoms and diagnoses. METHODS:A longitudinal analysis of UK primary care electronic health records (EHR) data from 2000 to 2017. ...
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- BioMed Central Publisher's website
- Journal:
- BMC Medicine Journal website
- Volume:
- 17
- Article number:
- 222
- Publication date:
- 2019-11-29
- Acceptance date:
- 2019-10-02
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1741-7015
- Pmid:
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31783757
- Source identifiers:
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1076286
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- English
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- pubs:1076286
- Deposit date:
- 2020-01-07
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- Nicholson et al
- Copyright date:
- 2019
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- © The Author(s). 2019 Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated
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- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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