RT Journal Article SR Electronic T1 The Melbourne East Monash General Practice Database: Using data from computerised medical records for research JF BMJ Health & Care Informatics FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd SP 523 OP 528 DO 10.14236/jhi.v23i2.181 VO 23 IS 2 A1 Danielle Mazza A1 Christopher Pearce A1 Lyle R. Turner A1 Maria de Leon-Santiago A1 Adam McLeod A1 Jason Ferriggi A1 Marianne Shearer YR 2016 UL http://informatics.bmj.com/content/23/2/523.abstract AB 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. Data extracted are 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 are 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.