Last updated on: 25/11/2011
1. Contact details
This data source is maintained by the following centre registered in the ENCePP inventory of research centres: IMS Health
Name of data sourceIMS LifeLink EMR France (formely Disease Analyzer)
Name under which the data source should be displayed in the inventory (e.g short name if one exists)LifeLink EMR FR
Name of organisation
1) Department/research groupHealth Economics and Outcomes Research
2) Organisation/affiliationIMS Consulting Group
Administrative Contact
Title Dr
Last name Massoud
First name Toussi
Address line 191 rue Jean Jaures
Address line 2
Address line 3
CityPuteaux
Postcode92800
CountryFrance
Scientific Contact
Title Dr
Last name Massoud
First name Toussi
Address line 191 rue Jean Jaures
Address line 2
Address line 3
CityPuteaux
Postcode92800
CountryFrance
2. Description/category
Routine primary care electronic patient registry
Pharmacy dispensing database
3.1 Coverage of licensed medicinal products
Licensed Medicinal Product
Comments
Community / general practice data
OTC
Vaccines
3.2 ATC code (5th level)
Yes
3.3 Other product dictionaries
EphMRA
3.4 Recording of indication for use
Yes
Is a coding dictionary being used? ICD 10
4. Coverage of events
Event
Dictionary
Dictionary details
Symptoms/signs
Yes
ICD 10
Diagnosis in primary care
Yes
ICD 10
Laboratory values
No
partial
Death
No
partial
Procedures
No
partial
Specific event
Description: Specific events includes sick leaves, letters to colleauges, additional information under free text.
No
partial
5. Year of establishment
1997
6. Geographical origin of data
EEA/EFTA countries
France
7. Demographical extent of data collection
Nation-wide
8. Age groups
17 years and under [Paediatrics]
preterm newborn infants
term newborn infants (0 to 27 days)
infants and toddlers (28 days to 23 months)
children (2 to 11 years)
adolescents (12 to 17 years)
18 to 45 years
46 to 64 years
65 years and over
65 to 75 years
76 years and over
9. Size of the source/catchment population
60,000,000
10 a. Total (cumulative) number of persons with actual data
4,500,000
10 b. Number of persons with active data collection in past calendar year
1,300,000
11. Possibility to obtain additional information on the patient
a) Clinical information from treating physician?
Yes
b) Questionnaire data from the patient?
Yes
c) Genetic information or samples?
No
12. Possibility of links to other sources of data
No
13. Written policy governing data access
Yes
14. Committee to evaluate requests for data access
No
15. Charge/fee for data access
Yes
Special arrangements for academic purposes:
Yes
16. Selected publications of the last 5 calendar years using data from this data source
ReferenceLink to web-publication
J Pediatr. 2008 Nov;153(5):659-62, 662.e1-3. Epub 2008 Sep 30.
Antiemetic medications in children with presumed infectious gastroenteritis--pharmacoepidemiology in Europe and Northern America.
Pfeil N, Uhlig U, Kostev K, Carius R, Schröder H, Kiess W, Uhlig HH.http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18829050
