De Clercq Etienne, Van Casteren Viviane, Jonckheer Pascale, Burggraeve Peter
Health Systems Research, Université Catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium.
Stud Health Technol Inform. 2009;150:38-42.
Dedicated primary care research networks aim to gather and analyse data collected from general practioners' (GPs) electronic health records (EHRs). ResoPrim (2003-2008) was a Belgian multidisciplinary research project which was set up to provide recommendations for facilitating the organisation and management of these primary care research networks, assessing and improving opportunities for researchers working with available data from EHRs, and stimulating the involvement of GPs in such networks. This paper provides a short description of Resoprim's global methodology (which included 2 pilot phases involving 64 GPs and 6 different software systems), followed by the project's final recommendations.
