r3d100011282 The Health Improvement Network THIN https://www.the-health-improvement-network.com/ THIN is a medical data collection scheme that collects anonymised patient data from its members through the healthcare software Vision. The UK Primary Care database contains longitudinal patient records for approximately 6% of the UK Population. The anonymised data collection, which goes back to 1994, is nationally representative of the UK population. disciplinary 587 practices covered; 12.000.000 patients; 3.600.000 active patients 2002-11 eng 1 Humanities and Social Sciences 111 Social Sciences 12 Social and Behavioural Sciences 2 Life Sciences 205 Medicine 20502 Public Health, Health Services Research, Social Medicine 22 Medicine https://www.the-health-improvement-network.co.uk/#what-is-thin Plain text Raw data Scientific and statistical data formats Standard office documents other dataProvider demographics diagnoses health service evaluation life sciences medical studies patient data practice data prescribing socioeconomics Cegedim RX GBR general commercial https://www.cegedimrx.co.uk/ info@cegedimrx.co.uk European Network of Centres for Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacovigilance ENCePP EEC funding non-profit http://www.encepp.eu/ http://www.encepp.eu/encepp/viewResource.htm?id=10237 IQVIA The Human Data Science Company formerly: CSD Medical Research UK formerly: IMS Health Ltd GBR general commercial https://www.iqvia.com/ 2017 https://www.iqvia.com/contact/general UK National Health Service NHS GBR general non-profit https://www.nhs.uk/ https://www.nhs.uk/contact-us/ European Network of Centres for Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacovigilance - ENCePP Guide on Methodological Standards http://www.encepp.eu/standards_and_guidances/methodologicalGuide.shtml Legal Notices https://www.cegedimrx.co.uk/privacy-policy closed restricted feeRequired restricted registration other http://csdmruk.cegedim.com/our-data/accessing-the-data.shtml restricted other other none yes yes The Health Improvement Network - THIN is covered by Thomson Reuters Data Citation Index. Additional Information Services (AIS) is the division of THIN which obtains anonymised hard copy information for medical studies. AIS liases with THIN data contributors on behalf of researchers to obtain documents which add valuable information to studies. This information can be in the form of anonymised questionnaires completed by the GP or patient, copies of patient-related correspondence, a specified intervention (e.g. a laboratory test to confirm diagnosis) or death certificates. All documentation is depersonalised by the practice and checked by AIS to ensure anonymisation is complete before the information is supplied to the researcher. All studies have ethical approval by NHS Multicentre Research Ethics Committees (MREC) before AIS requests are made to practices. 2014-11-24 2021-05-20