> Information on opioid prescriptions comes from Symphony Health’s IDV® (Integrated Dataverse) dataset ... The dataset includes approximately 90% of all prescriptions filled at outpatient pharmacies in the United States between 2011 and 2018 ... Each observation includes the year the prescription was filled, the eleven-digit national drug code (NDC) for the prescription, the total days’ supply for the prescription, the quantity of drugs, an encrypted patient identifier, and an encrypted healthcare provider identifier.
Given what we’ve learned about data re-identification [1], this sounds like a pretty scary dataset. Does anybody know more about it? Do you need to pay for access? Is access restricted to researchers who can be trusted not to attempt re-identification?
Given what we’ve learned about data re-identification [1], this sounds like a pretty scary dataset. Does anybody know more about it? Do you need to pay for access? Is access restricted to researchers who can be trusted not to attempt re-identification?
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_re-identification