Healthcare use by people who use illicit opioids (HUPIO): development of a cohort based on electronic primary care records in England (extended data)

Lewer, D

; Padmanathan, P; Arfeen, MNU; Denaxas, S

; Forbes, H

; Gonzalez-Izquierdo, A and Hickman, M (2021). Healthcare use by people who use illicit opioids (HUPIO): development of a cohort based on electronic primary care records in England (extended data). [Dataset]. University College London, London, United Kingdom. https://doi.org/10.5522/04/13253906.v5

Copy

This dataset includes: 1. Search terms used to identify codes that may represent a history of illicit opioid use 2. Codelist for identifying people with a history of illicit opioid use 3. Age- and sex-distribution of patients by product and clinical codes 4. Number of patients currently in the cohort 5. Age of patients at cohort entry 6. Internal validation based on hospital admissions for opioid dependence

Keywords

illicit drugs; substance use disorders; electronic health records; opioids; health inequalities

Item Type	Dataset
Resource Type	Resource Type Resource Description Dataset Document
Capture method	Other
Date	27 April 2021
Language(s) of written materials	English
Creator(s)	Lewer, D; Padmanathan, P; Arfeen, MNU; Denaxas, S; Forbes, H ; Gonzalez-Izquierdo, A and Hickman, M
LSHTM Faculty/Department	Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health > Dept of Non-Communicable Disease Epidemiology
Participating Institutions	London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom; University College London, London, United Kingdom
Date Deposited	24 Aug 2022 16:21
Last Modified	07 Nov 2025 10:01
Publisher	University College London