Cochrane Primary Health Care Field

Cochrane Primary Health Care Field

News, Updates, and More

This meeting

• Brief Update of Register of CPRs (Susan Smith)

• Brief Update of other Field activities

• Discussion

Who are the Primary Health Care Field?

• Collaboration between Auckland (NZ), Dublin (Ie), Nijmegen (Nl)

• Nijmegen: overall coordination, website, newsletter, PEARLS (dissemination, translation, development)

• Auckland: PEARLS development

• Dublin: Clinical Prediction Rules

PEARLS: ongoing work & new developments

• Ongoing production of new PEARLS

• Dissemination through newsletter and website

• English, Dutch, French,

• Starting: Italian, Chinese

• Integration of PEARLS on http://summaries.cochrane.org/

How to increase primary care involvement in Cochrane

• www.cochranegetinvolved.org

• Integration of data in Archie

• Scanning new and retracted (!) titles, protocols and reviews

• Dissemination through newsletter and ‘matchmaking’

Cochrane Primary Health Care Field members: identified

members PHCF0

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all members PHCF, 255PHCF primary en-tity, 182get involved members, 131

Cochrane Primary Health Care Field members:where do they come from?

members PHCF05

101520253035404550

USA, 43UK, 39Netherlands, 27Australia, 20Spain, 19Canada, 14New Zealand, 7

Subscription to PHCF Newsletter: numbers

PHCF Newsletter January 2012anouncing 2000th member

Still growing: now 2200 members

Primary Health Care Field

• www.cochraneprimarycare.org

• www.cochrangetinvolved.org

• Newsletter: http://lists.cochrane.org/mailman/listinfo/primarycare

• info@cochraneprimarycare.org

Primary Health Care Field: challenges & opportunities

Typicalities of primary care

• Conditions less severe compared to sec. or tert. Care (spectrum bias)

• Personal Care

• Continuity of care

• Comprehensive care

• Multimorbidity

• Unexplained Somatic Complaint