Developing and Maintaining a Population Research Registry to Support Primary Healthcare Research

What did we do? This paper describes the creation of a population research registry as part of an information system to support primary healthcare (PHC) research in British Columbia. The population registry includes all residents of the province who were either eligible to use or actually used healt...

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Published in:Healthcare policy 2009-01, Vol.5 (special issue), p.65-76
Main Authors: Broemeling, Anne-Marie, Kerluke, Kerry, Black, Charlyn, Peterson, Sandra, MacDonald, Allyson, McKendry, Rachael
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Confidentiality
Information systems
Medical research
Primary health care
Provinces
Service provision
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Summary:What did we do? This paper describes the creation of a population research registry as part of an information system to support primary healthcare (PHC) research in British Columbia. The population registry includes all residents of the province who were either eligible to use or actually used healthcare services, together with demographic, geographic, health status, registration and service use data. The PHC population research registry is built using administrative data inputs, and data are anonymized to comply with privacy and confidentiality standards. Adapted from the source document.
ISSN:1715-6572