The Medicines Monitoring Unit (MEMO) is a University-based organisation that has access to data generated within the UK National Health Service (NHS).
MEMO in the United
Kingdom
The
Medicines Monitoring Unit (MEMO) is a University-based organisation that has
access to data generated within the UK National Health Service (NHS). MEMO uses
record-linkage techniques to carry out studies to detect and quantify adverse
effects of drugs in the community. Currently, MEMO utilises data from the
Tayside region of Scotland, which is geographically compact and serves over 400
000 patients. A computerised record of all patients regis-tered with a general
practitioner and inpatient hospital morbidity and mortality data are available
to MEMO and form the backbone of the record-linkage system.
Although MEMO was originally set up for phar-macoepidemiologic
research and this is still the main focus of its research activities, recent
advances mean that studies in outcomes research, general epidemiol-ogy and
health economics are also possible.
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