Minutes COUGH WORKING GROUP – Meeting location Melia Milano Hotel, Via Masaccio 19, Milan, Italy Meeting date 10th Sept 2017 Meeting time 8:00-9:00 Lorcan McGarvey Alyn Morice Victoria Carter Ana Sogo David Price Christian Domingo Alan Kaplan Akio Niimi Attendees Peter Kardos Jachy Smith Ian Pavord Jan van den Berg Mike Thomas Catherine Hutton Sarah Lucas Naomi Launders Kathryn Discuss protocol and read codes for first project. Objective Identify research needs and ideas for projects in the field of cough Minutes: Progress to date 1 First official meeting to discuss the new group and its objectives 2 Comments on ongoing work Initial search of gives ~2 million patients with cough Read code There are free text fields in OPCRD and it may be worth having those in the dataset. Initially we don’t need to focus on chronic cough, just cough in general. Study title- Burden of cough in UK primary care Descriptive study. Look at numbers of patients with different types of cough. See how many would fit the definition of chronic cough and how the patients relate to those seen in specialise cough clinics. Look in data for treatment trials, so treatment for GERD or asthma which is unsuccessful. Look at other related comorbidities respiratory and non-respiratory. 3 Actions Need to identify the appropriate read codes for this project Victoria to provide slides on OPCRD so people can look at the data available and decide what we can do with this for cough.
Minutes – COUGH WORKING GROUP Meeting location Melia Milano Hotel, Via Masaccio 19, Milan, Italy Meeting date 10th Sept 2017 Meeting time 8:00-9:00 Attendees Lorcan McGarvey Victoria Carter David Price Alan Kaplan Peter Kardos Ian Pavord Mike Thomas Sarah Lucas Kathryn Alyn Morice Ana Sogo Christian Domingo Akio Niimi Jachy Smith Jan van den Berg Catherine Hutton Naomi Launders Objective Discuss protocol and read codes for first project. Identify research needs and ideas for projects in the field of cough Minutes: 1 Progress to date First official meeting to discuss the new group and its objectives 2 Comments on ongoing work Initial search of gives ~2 million patients with cough Read code There are free text fields in OPCRD and it may be worth having those in the dataset. Initially we don’t need to focus on chronic cough, just cough in general. Study title- Burden of cough in UK primary care Descriptive study. Look at numbers of patients with different types of cough. See how many would fit the definition of chronic cough and how the patients relate to those seen in specialise cough clinics. Look in data for treatment trials, so treatment for GERD or asthma which is unsuccessful. Look at other related comorbidities respiratory and non-respiratory. 3 Actions Need to identify the appropriate read codes for this project Victoria to provide slides on OPCRD so people can look at the data available and decide what we can do with this for cough.
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