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Agency for the Management of Clinical Research in Primary Care
This unit comprises the Agency for the Management of Clinical Research in Primary Care (AGICAP), which is dedicated
to the management and promotion of research in the form of clinical trials into Primary Care in Catalonia.
This agency offers the following services.
– Training and accreditation of network researchers
– Methodological and logistical support of the protocols generated by our network of researchers
– Rapid selection of centres and accredited researchers (within 10 days)
– Rapid preparation of contracts (negotiation with management and signing)
– Single evaluation by CEIC (which advises all the primary care centres and other entities)
– Quality recruitment
– Protection and safety of patients
– Support of monitors and centres and promotion of the logistical aspects of each clinical trial
– Payment of research workers and centres
– Design of research protocols
– Statistical analysis
– Monitoring of clinical trials
– Clinical Trial Units equipped with research workers and specialised research equipment located in the
Barcelona metropolitan area.
3.4 Information System for the Development of Research in Primary Care
The Information System for the Development of Research in Primary Care (SIDIAP) is a database created in 2010
by IDIAP Jordi Gol and the Catalan Health Institute (ICS) from computerised clinical registers. SIDIAP has the
anonymous clinical information of 5.8 million citizens assigned to ICS Primary Care, and via a synthetic indicator
Registry Quality Score (RQS) it selects the professionals with an optimum level of computerised clinical history
use in order to use the patients assigned to these professionals (40% of the total, or approximately 1.9 million) in
high quality research.
For each of the citizens included, SIDIAP has all the information of their clinical history electronically stored by the
eCAP program (demographic data, visits, health problems codified according to the CIM-10 classification, clinical
variables, life style, and vaccinations), the results of their laboratory tests and the prescribed medication they
have collected from pharmacies. In addition, with SIDIAP patients may be individually linked to the database of
hospital admissions (CMBD-AH) of CatSalut.
Since its creation SIDIAP has given support to 29 local, national and international projects investigating Primary
Care, the majority of them with financing obtained through competitive calls. Collaborations have also been
established with other databases of similar characteristics and international repute such as the British GPRD.
SIDIAP DATA
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