Fostering the exchange of real world data across different countries to answer primary care research questions: an UNLOCK study from the IPCRG.

ABSTRACT: There is growing awareness amongst healthcare planners, providers and researchers of the need to make better use of routinely collected health data by translating it into actionable information that improves efficiency of healthcare and patient outcomes. There is also increased acceptance of the importance of real world research that recruits patients representative of primary care populations and evaluates interventions realistically delivered by primary care professionals. The UNLOCK Group is an international collaboration of primary care researchers and practitioners from 15 countries. It has coordinated and shared datasets of diagnostic and prognostic variables for COPD and asthma to answer research questions meaningful to professionals working in primary care over a 6-year period. Ove

SUBMITTER: Cragg L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5843627 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature