Table 1 Information available in LPD and LRx database
From: Artificial intelligence to differentiate asthma from COPD in medico-administrative databases
Only available in LPD database | Only available in LRx Database | Shared by both databases | |
|---|---|---|---|
Prescribers’ characteristics | Age, gender, geographical area | Geographical area | Specialty |
Patients’ characteristics | Unique identification number | Unique identification number | Year of birth, gender |
Visit | Date, diagnosis | – | – |
Treatments’ characteristics | Number of packs, duration of the prescription and renewal | Dispensing date, dispensed volume | Prescription date, packaging, dosage, drug code (CIP) |