Self-Reported Medication Use Validated Through Record Linkage to National Prescribing Data

Researchers need to be confident about the reliability of epidemiological studies that quantify medication use through self-report. Some evidence suggests that psychiatric medications are systemically under-reported. Modern record linkage enables validation of self-report with national prescribing data as gold standard. Here, we investigated the validity of medication self-report for multiple medication types.

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