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
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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
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
