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General description

In 2010, the Catalan Institute of Health (ICS) and the IDIAP Jordi Gol collaborated to build the SIDIAP database. Its major goal is to advance research using data from primary care electronic medical records and other related databases.

SIDIAP was created to offer a legitimate and trustworthy database of chosen data from primary care patient records for use in biomedical research. SIDIAP comprises anonymised patient health records for about six million persons (around 80% of the Catalan population) who have been registered in 287 primary care practices across Catalonia since 2005.

Variable categories

Limitations

Because the SIDIAP is a primary care database, some cancer forms are more difficult to identify.

Related publications

• Indications related to antidepressant prescribing in the Nivel-PCD database and the SIDIAP database.
• Incidence and risk factors for clinically diagnosed knee, hip and hand osteoarthritis: influences of age, gender and osteoarthritis affecting other joints.
• Validation Of Cancer Diagnoses In Electronic Health Records: Results From The Information System For Research In Primary Care (SIDIAP) In Northeast Spain.
• Comparative risk of acute myocardial infarction for anti-osteoporosis drugs in primary care: a meta-analysis of propensity-matched cohort findings from the UK Clinical Practice Research Database and the Catalan SIDIAP Database.
• SIDIAP database: electronic clinical records in primary care as a source of information for epidemiologic research