title: The Melbourne East Monash General Practice Database (MAGNET): Using data from computerised medical records to create a platform for primary care and health services research.
abstract: The Melbourne East MonAsh GeNeral PracticE DaTabase (MAGNET) research platform was launched in 2013 to provide a unique data source for primary care and health services research in Australia.  MAGNET contains information from the computerised records of 50 participating general practices and includes data from the computerised medical records of more than 1,100,000 patients.  The data extracted is patient-level episodic information and includes a variety of fields related to patient demographics and historical clinical information, along with the characteristics of the participating general practices.  While there are limitations to the data that is currently available, the MAGNET research platform continues to investigate other avenues for improving the breadth and quality of data, with the aim of providing a more comprehensive picture of primary care in Australia.
authors.affiliation: Monash University. danielle.mazza@monash.edu.
authors.forename: Danielle
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Mazza
authors.affiliation: Inner East Melbourne Medicare Local and Monash University. cpearce@iemml.org.au.
authors.forename: Christopher
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Pearce
authors.affiliation: Monash University. lyle.turner@monash.edu.
authors.forename: Lyle Robert
authors.initials: LR
authors.lastname: Turner
authors.affiliation: Monash University. maria.de.leon@monash.edu.
authors.forename: Maria
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: De Leon-Santiago
authors.affiliation: Inner East Melbourne Medicare Local. AMcLeod@iemml.org.au.
authors.forename: Adam
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: McLeod
authors.affiliation: Inner East Melbourne Medicare Local. jason.ferriggi@dhhs.vic.gov.au.
authors.forename: Jason
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Ferriggi
authors.affiliation: Inner East Melbourne Medicare Local. MShearer@iemml.org.au.
authors.forename: Marianne
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Shearer
mesh_terms: D001315:Australia; D057286:Electronic Health Records; D058006:General Practice / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006302:Health Services Research; D006801:Humans; D011320:Primary Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration*
keywords: electronic health records, data set, general practice, primary care data, health services research