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Rheumatology Advance Access originally published online on December 20, 2005
Rheumatology 2006 45(2):126-128; doi:10.1093/rheumatology/kei265
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© The Author 2005. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the British Society for Rheumatology. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

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The use of general practice consultation databases in rheumatology research

K. Jordan, M. Porcheret, U. T. Kadam and P. Croft

Primary Care Sciences Research Centre, Keele University, Keele, UK

Correspondence to: K Jordan. E-mail: k.p.jordan@cphc.keele.ac.uk

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Clinicians, health service planners and public health policy-makers all understand the value of data which describe the occurrence of disease in the community. Routinely collected mortality statistics, for example, have made an enormous contribution to understanding the causes of disease, measuring the impact of prevention and health-care, and the planning of health services. However, a modern rheumatological readership will understand the point made forcibly in the 1980 Black Report on Inequalities in Health, that ‘undue dependence on mortality rates can induce comparative indifference towards problems of chronic illness’, since such indifference is still evident in health policy and research priorities today. The report emphasized the need for statistics on morbidity, especially chronic disease. The problem with morbidity is that, unlike death, much of the everyday experience of illness is not routinely recorded, whilst periodic surveys of the health of the general population, such as those carried out by the Office . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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