The search engine for
healthcare databases
B.R.I.D.G.E. TO DATA® is Your Connection to Healthcare Databases Worldwide - a unique non-profit online reference describing population healthcare databases for use in epidemiology and health outcomes research.
Drawing on decades of experience with databases, we developed this tool to allow users to identify key features and compare database profiles. This resource also serves as an educational tool for public health research and as a template for health systems planners to design or refine their healthcare data.
        
Benefits
Global

A centralized worldwide compendium of population database profiles

Comprehensive

In-depth database details, approved by database managers

Timely

Constantly growing number of up-to-date profiles

Structured

Efficient side-by-side comparison and analysis

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Key Database Features
Types of databases include:

• Longitudinal EMR and claims
• Drug or disease specific cohorts
• Registries
• National surveys
• National surveillance systems
• Spontaneous reporting systems

200 standardized database profiles
75 defined data fields
Profiles from 27 countries
Continuously updated
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New Poster
Read our poster presented at the 2012 ACPE Meeting

What our customers say

Congratulations for building B.R.I.D.G.E. TO DATA! Our recent exploration of available databases for the study of medications in pregnancy has given me firsthand experience of how difficult it can be to identify an appropriate database!

Susan Sinclair Roberts, PhD, Assistant Professor, Clinical Research Program UNCW, Wilmington, NC

B.R.I.D.G.E. TO DATA has been very helpful for initial screening data sources for a potential epi study. It provides broad, thorough, and detailed information on each database listed in the system. It has been a wonderful tool to have, especially for feasibility evaluation.

Jihong Zong, MD, PhD, Director, Pharmacoepidemiology, Sanofi-Aventis (2004-2013)

B.R.I.D.G.E. has some useful features, such as the opportunity to select individual databases and to compare them side-by-side. It is user friendly and has video tutorials that provide a potential user with a short and comprehensive training how to navigate through the database profiles.

Katarina Ilic MD PhD MPH, Assistant Professor School of Pharmacy University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia

What's new

5/13/13: Come see our latest poster in New Orleans (May 20, 2013, 8:30 AM - 2:15 PM CT)
If you will be at ISPOR’s 18th Annual International Meeting (May 18-22, 2013 at the Sheraton New Orleans in New Orleans, LA, USA) please stop by to see our poster Spontaneous Reporting Data: A Global Comparison Using An Online Database Resource (PRM6... more »
5/8/13: Announcing our first Brazilian database profile
In January of this year we uploaded our first database profile from Russia – Kantar Health’s National Health and Wellness Survey (NHWS) Database – and said that we are going to profile all of Kantar Health’s NHWS data sets from various countries.... more »
4/25/13: Check out the new IMS PharMetrics Plus Database:
We just updated the US IMS LifeLink™ Health Plan Claims Database.... more »
4/16/13: Subscribers can now access 2 new database profiles!
(1) Survey of Mental Health and Wellbeing (SMHWB) from Australia, and (2) Registry of the Japanese Society of Lung and Heart-Lung Transplantation from Japan ... more »
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