Clinical records of the patients in the database of the Unit of Clinical Pharmacology, Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria, Cagliari, were examined.
A total of 50,786 patients in the database of the participating GPs fulfilled the age criterion and had at least one GP contact in the last quarter.
In this study, the HIV-infected patients in the database of 1 million random enrollees were identified using the ICD-9-CM codes 042, 043, 044 (HIV), and V08 (asymptomatic HIV infection status) for the period from January 1 , 1998 to December 31 , 2011
Asthma patients recorded in the database of the Health Authority of Abu Dhabi HAADD) were identified according to the WHO's 9th International Classification of Disease (ICD-9).
This study involves 3240 patients, registered in the database of the German Network for Systemic Scleroderma (DNSS).
The data of 3240 prospectively included patients, registered in the database of the German Network for Systemic Scleroderma and followed between 2003 and 2013, were analysed.
The large number of patients in the database, >40% of whom are ⩾65 years old, allowed a retrospective examination of baseline demographics, treatment patterns, and sorafenib tolerability within age subsets, with a particular focus on the oldest patients (⩾75 years).
Written consent was obtained from all patients and documented in the database of the University Hospital Innsbruck in agreement with statutory provisions and the requirements of the Ethics Committee of the Innsbruck Medical University.
The patients in the database are representative of the national commercially insured US population in terms of age, sex, and type of health plan with an approximate distribution of health plan type: preferred provider organization (52%), health maintenance organization (20%), point-of-service (18%), indemnity (7%), and other/unknown (3%).
Approximately 7% of the patients in the database received DrotAA (882 of 12,492).
Over the last years about 60,000 patients were registered annually in the database of which 75% was treated in Altrecht MHC.
