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more »9/19/17: Our 6th Finnish database profile has been added
Since 1950, the National Institute for Health and Welfare Finland (THL) Register of Induced Abortions monitors and develops measures to promote the health and well-being of the population of Finland. Among other things, data include information on grounds for abortion - since 1955. Starting 1958, information is available on patient’s marital status, age, number of births and the number of procedures performed in each province.
9/6/17: Thank you to those who visited us at ICPE in Montreal
We were pleased to meet you all and hope you enjoyed your chance to conduct your own database search with B.R.I.D.G.E. TO DATA®. Don’t forget we are offering ISPE members a 10% discount for signing up by September 30, 2017*.
8/24/17: Profile of a US Military Health Services database just added.
We are pleased to include the Department of Defense (DoD) Military Health Services (MHS) Electronic Health Records Database profile into B.R.I.D.G.E. This database encompasses ~40-50 Million uniformed service members, retirees, and their family members across all states, territories, and regions of the US from 1990 through the present. There are ~10 Million active beneficiaries, and the database population is demographically similar to most US healthcare systems.
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B.R.I.D.G.E. TO DATA® is Your Connection to Healthcare Databases Worldwide - a unique
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Drawing on decades of experience with databases, we developed this tool to allow users to identify key features and compare database profiles. This resource also serves as an educational tool for public health research and as a template for health systems planners to design or refine their healthcare data.
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Based in the United States, B.R.I.D.G.E. TO DATA® provides a unique searchable and comprehensive compendium of information on population healthcare databases worldwide. Researchers are able to view profiles on various population datasets on a single site.
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Types of databases include:
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~500 standardized database profiles
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Profiles from 73 countries
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What our customers say
The B.R.I.D.G.E. TO DATA team did an excellent job for our organization profiling over 400 real-world databases and enabled us to identify a select few that best met our research criteria. We could not have done this work as effectively and efficiently on our own without BTD; the team was experienced and professional throughout the engagement. I highly recommend them for any organization needing to identify the best database for its research project.
Joseph Rolley, MS, Chair, Wound Care Collaborative Community, RWE Group, Pennsylvania, USA.
I learned from my own experience that both in academia and pharmaceutics, prompt identification and selection of an adequate database is very important. In an academic setting, analyzing data from registries is particularly of great advantage in countries with limited financial resources for research which requires significant investment. In pharmaceuticals there is an increasing request from regulatory authorities for companies to conduct post-authorization safety studies. B.R.I.D.G.E. TO DATA (BTD) contains detailed descriptions of databases from more than 70 countries, including descriptions of pregnancy registries. It is impressive that using BTD one can find information on databases even from small countries.
Katarina Ilic MD MSc PhD MPH FISoP, Executive Medical Director, Head of PV & Risk Management at Celldex Therapeutics, USA.
It is impressive that your list is getting longer. The search engine (B.R.I.D.G.E. TO DATA) is useful when a researcher gets overview of various databases at a glance.
Kaori Nomura, MPH PhD, Associate Professor, Teikyo Heisei University, Tokyo, Japan.
8/14/17: Come see us at ICPE 2017 in Montreal, Canada, August 28-30
Our team will be at the 33rd International Conference on Pharmacoepidemiology and Therapeutic Risk Management (ICPE) in Montreal, Canada, August 28-30. Meet us at booth #18 and say hello.
8/11/17: New profile from Finland
Our 284th profile is the Care Register for Health Care, a continuation of the Finnish National Hospital Discharge Register (FHDR). One of the oldest individual level hospital discharge registers covering all of Finland, the Care Register covers data from 1969 to present and has more comprehensive data on the use of services and service users than the original FHDR.
7/28/17: Three more Maccabi profiles added to our rich collection of DB profiles
There are now 283 profiles listed in our resource! The Maccabi Healthcare Services (MHS) maintains several chronic disease registries that are updated automatically in real time from the central medical record. As of January 2017:
MHS Home Care Registry includes 57,199 members (20,528 active);
MHS Warfarin Treatment Registry includes 42,515 members (26,114 active); and