title: Primary healthcare research network: the Belgian ResoPrim recommendations.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Health Systems Research, Université Catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium. etienne.declercq@uclouvain.be
authors.forename: Etienne
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: De Clercq
authors.forename: Viviane
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Van Casteren
authors.forename: Pascale
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Jonckheer
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Burggraeve
mesh_terms: D001530:Belgium; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized / Q000941:ethics / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D011320:Primary Health Care; D012106:Research / Q000458:organization & administration*