FIRE-Project

FIRE = Family Medicine ICPC Research using Electronic Medical Record

• a Swiss Database
• collecting anonyous data from Swiss GP’s out of the EMR
• 5 data tables:
  • gender/year of birth
  • ICPC-2-Code
  • Vital-Parameters: Pressure, Puls rate, BMI
  • Lab-results: INR; HB, Creatinine, potassium, cholesterol etc , psa,  liver parameters- any data stored electronically
  • medication: Code, dosis

Some figures:

• Started 2009
• over 500 GP’s delivering data
• over 556’000 patients
• over 6 Mio conultations
• millions of ICPC-Codes, Lab-results, medication list
• 10 publications
• 3 research rewards
• 2 grants of the Swiss National Science Foundation

—> more (in german!)