Searching and Creating Phenotypes

1. Searching and Creating Phenotypes on the Website

What are Phenotypes?

A Phenotype is an observable and measurable piece of information that is relevant to health or healthcare. For example, it can be a disease (e.g. type 2 diabetes), a blood pressure measurement, a blood sugar value or a prescription of antibiotics.

Phenotyping algorithms are special tools that enable researchers to extract Phenotypes from complex, and often messy data that get generated during routine interactions within the healthcare system. They identify and extract data from medical records using clinical codes which are the building block of how information is recorded in healthcare (for example ICD-10). Using these specialised algorithms, researchers and clinicians can maximise the value of patient data contained in medical records and answer important questions that can improve health and healthcare.

1.1. Searching Phenotypes

Accessing the search page

Users can access the search page via the navigation bar - this can be accessed by selecting the "Phenotypes" button.

You can start searching phenotypes here

1.2. Creating Phenotypes

Accessing the creation pages

Users can access the creation page via the search page - this can be accessed by selecting the “Phenotypes“ button seen in the navigation bar. To begin working on a Phenotype users must click the link within the “Create a Phenotype“ card.

You can start creating phenotypes here

Documentation

We have extensive documentation on how to create a phenotype here