Estimating prevalence and incidence of acute myocardial infarction in a set of heterogeneous sources of observational health data collaborating in the EMIF Platform

Study type

• Study type:
  Non-interventional study
• Scope of the study:
  Disease epidemiology

  Other
• If ‘other’, further details on the scope of the study:
  To test a data derivation procedure designed to identify any event of interest from data sources with heterogeneous characteristics

Non-interventional study

• Non-interventional study design:
  Cohort

Study drug and medical condition

• Medical condition to be studied:
  Acute myocardial infarction

Population studied

• Age groups:
  Adults (46 to < 65 years)

  Adults (65 to < 75 years)

  Adults (75 to < 85 years)

  Adults (85 years and over)
• Estimated number of subjects:
  1000000

Study design details

• Main study objective:
  Estimating prevalence and incidence of acute myocardial infarction in a setheterogeneous sources of observational health data collaborating in theEMIF Platform in order to test a standard data derivation procedure designed to facilitate the execution of multi-national, multi-data source studies
• Data analysis plan:
  The study population in each participating data source will include all active subjects at 1st January 2013 (cohort entry) with at least 365 days of look-back. Prevalence and incidence of AMI observed between 1st January and 31st December 2013 will be calculated in each participating data sources according to different case definitions.