CIPCA database v1.0
Research type
Research Database
IRAS ID
220538
Contact name
James Bailey
Contact email
Research summary
Consultations in Primary Care Archive (CiPCA)
REC name
North West - Haydock Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
17/NW/0232
Date of REC Opinion
20 Apr 2017
REC opinion
Favourable Opinion
Data collection arrangements
The Consultations in Primary Care Archive (CiPCA) is a database of information routinely recorded at up to 20 general practices, updated every two years subject to the practices' agreement. Data includes information from all patients with a recorded contact at the practices unless they have requested their information not to be used in research. Data held includes dates of consultations, reasons for consultation, prescribed medications, investigations and tests with results, referral information and registration information.
Identifiable data such as names and addresses are not extracted from the practices. All the practices use EMIS software to record information and data is extracted with the agreement of the practices by EMIS Health through their automatic electronic data extraction procedure which does not extract identifiable data. The pseudo-anonymised data is then securely passed to Keele University researchers to be held on Keele's password-protected computer servers.
Access to CiPCA data is overseen by a committee including experienced medical record researchers.Research programme
Data held within the CiPCA Research Database is used for research only by teams which include Keele University researchers, and data is held at all times on the Keele University password-protected computer servers. This means that research teams from outside Keele can only use the CiPCA data as part of a collaboration with Keele researchers and all analysis must be performed at Keele. Data in CiPCA can be used to determine the occurrence, management, and long term course and outcomes of illness presented to primary care. Specificially CiPCA data will be used to -Describe the burden of pain, arthritis and other common conditions in primary care, in terms of prevalence, incidence, consultation patterns, their management and trends over time; - Describe the most likely future outcome or course of health conditions; -Predict future outcomes or course of health conditions; -Identify factors predicting benefit or harm from specific interventions. The CiPCA database can also be used to determine the feasibility of planned studies by determining likely numbers of eligible people based on inclusion and exclusion criteria.
Research database title
Consultations in Primary Care Archive (CiPCA)
Establishment organisation
Keele University
Establishment organisation address
Keele
Staffordshire
ST5 5BG