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Extension of the primary care research object model (PCROM) as clinical research information model (CRIM) for the “learning healthcare system”

BACKGROUND: Patient data from general practices is already used for many types of epidemiological research and increasingly, primary care systems to facilitate randomized clinical trials. The EU funded project TRANSFoRm aims to create a “Learning Healthcare System” at a European level that is able t...

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Autores principales: Kuchinke, Wolfgang, Karakoyun, Töresin, Ohmann, Christian, Arvanitis, Theodoros N, Taweel, Adel, Delaney, Brendan C, Speedie, Stuart M
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4276023/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25519481
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12911-014-0118-2
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author Kuchinke, Wolfgang
Karakoyun, Töresin
Ohmann, Christian
Arvanitis, Theodoros N
Taweel, Adel
Delaney, Brendan C
Speedie, Stuart M
author_facet Kuchinke, Wolfgang
Karakoyun, Töresin
Ohmann, Christian
Arvanitis, Theodoros N
Taweel, Adel
Delaney, Brendan C
Speedie, Stuart M
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description BACKGROUND: Patient data from general practices is already used for many types of epidemiological research and increasingly, primary care systems to facilitate randomized clinical trials. The EU funded project TRANSFoRm aims to create a “Learning Healthcare System” at a European level that is able to support all types of research using primary care data, to recruit patients and follow patients in clinical studies and to improve diagnosis and therapy. The implementation of such a Learning Healthcare System needs an information model for clinical research (CRIM), as an informational backbone to integrate aspects of primary care with clinical trials and database searches. METHODS: Workflow descriptions and corresponding data objects of two clinical use cases (Gastro-Oesophageal Reflux Disease and Type 2 Diabetes) were described in UML activity diagrams. The components of activity diagrams were mapped to information objects of PCROM (Primary Care Research Object Model) and BRIDG (Biomedical Research Integrated Domain Group) and evaluated. The class diagram of PCROM was adapted to comply with workflow descriptions. RESULTS: The suitability of PCROM, a primary care information model already used for clinical trials, to act as an information model for TRANSFoRm was evaluated and resulted in its extension with 14 new information object types, two extensions of existing objects and the introduction of two new high-ranking concepts (CARE area and ENTRY area). No PCROM component was redundant. Our result illustrates that in primary care based research an important but underestimated portion of research activity takes place in the area of care (e.g. patient consultation, screening, recruitment and response to adverse events). The newly introduced CARE area for care-related research activities accounts for this shift and includes Episode of Care and Encounter as two new basic elements. In the ENTRY area different aspects of data collection were combined, including data semantics for observations, assessment activities, intervention activities and patient reporting to enable case report form (CRF) based data collection combined with decision support. CONCLUSIONS: Research with primary care data needs an extended information model that covers research activities at the care site which are characteristic for primary care based research and the requirements of the complicated data collection processes.
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spelling pubmed-42760232014-12-25 Extension of the primary care research object model (PCROM) as clinical research information model (CRIM) for the “learning healthcare system” Kuchinke, Wolfgang Karakoyun, Töresin Ohmann, Christian Arvanitis, Theodoros N Taweel, Adel Delaney, Brendan C Speedie, Stuart M BMC Med Inform Decis Mak Research Article BACKGROUND: Patient data from general practices is already used for many types of epidemiological research and increasingly, primary care systems to facilitate randomized clinical trials. The EU funded project TRANSFoRm aims to create a “Learning Healthcare System” at a European level that is able to support all types of research using primary care data, to recruit patients and follow patients in clinical studies and to improve diagnosis and therapy. The implementation of such a Learning Healthcare System needs an information model for clinical research (CRIM), as an informational backbone to integrate aspects of primary care with clinical trials and database searches. METHODS: Workflow descriptions and corresponding data objects of two clinical use cases (Gastro-Oesophageal Reflux Disease and Type 2 Diabetes) were described in UML activity diagrams. The components of activity diagrams were mapped to information objects of PCROM (Primary Care Research Object Model) and BRIDG (Biomedical Research Integrated Domain Group) and evaluated. The class diagram of PCROM was adapted to comply with workflow descriptions. RESULTS: The suitability of PCROM, a primary care information model already used for clinical trials, to act as an information model for TRANSFoRm was evaluated and resulted in its extension with 14 new information object types, two extensions of existing objects and the introduction of two new high-ranking concepts (CARE area and ENTRY area). No PCROM component was redundant. Our result illustrates that in primary care based research an important but underestimated portion of research activity takes place in the area of care (e.g. patient consultation, screening, recruitment and response to adverse events). The newly introduced CARE area for care-related research activities accounts for this shift and includes Episode of Care and Encounter as two new basic elements. In the ENTRY area different aspects of data collection were combined, including data semantics for observations, assessment activities, intervention activities and patient reporting to enable case report form (CRF) based data collection combined with decision support. CONCLUSIONS: Research with primary care data needs an extended information model that covers research activities at the care site which are characteristic for primary care based research and the requirements of the complicated data collection processes. BioMed Central 2014-12-18 /pmc/articles/PMC4276023/ /pubmed/25519481 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12911-014-0118-2 Text en © Kuchinke et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. 2014 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Kuchinke, Wolfgang
Karakoyun, Töresin
Ohmann, Christian
Arvanitis, Theodoros N
Taweel, Adel
Delaney, Brendan C
Speedie, Stuart M
Extension of the primary care research object model (PCROM) as clinical research information model (CRIM) for the “learning healthcare system”
title Extension of the primary care research object model (PCROM) as clinical research information model (CRIM) for the “learning healthcare system”
title_full Extension of the primary care research object model (PCROM) as clinical research information model (CRIM) for the “learning healthcare system”
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title_full_unstemmed Extension of the primary care research object model (PCROM) as clinical research information model (CRIM) for the “learning healthcare system”
title_short Extension of the primary care research object model (PCROM) as clinical research information model (CRIM) for the “learning healthcare system”
title_sort extension of the primary care research object model (pcrom) as clinical research information model (crim) for the “learning healthcare system”
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4276023/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25519481
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12911-014-0118-2
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