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Published on: March 12, 2012
Creation of the First French Database in Primary Care Using the ICPC2: Feasibility Study
V Lacroix-Hugues1, D Darmon1, C Pradier2
1Deptt d'Enseignement et de Recherche en Médecine Générale, Université Nice Sophia-Antipolis, Nice, France.
Abstract:
The objective of our study was to assess the feasibility of gathering data stored in primary care Electronic Health records (EHRs) in order to create a research database (PRIMEGE PACA project). The software for EHR models of two office and patient data management systems were analyzed; anonymized data was extracted and imported into a MySQL database. An ETL procedure to code text in ICPC2 codes was implemented. Eleven general practitioners (GPs) were enrolled as "data producers" and data were extracted from 2012 to 2015. In this paper, we explain the ways to make this process feasible as well as illustrate its utility for estimating epidemiological indicators and professional practice assessments. Other software is currently being analyzed for integration and expansion of this panel of GPs. This experimentation is recognized as a robust framework and is considered to be the technical foundation of the first regional observatory of primary care data.
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