"family practice" se refiere a los "GP" (general practitioners), que en España son los "médicos de cabecera".

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The Registration Network Family Practices

www.unimaas.nl/~rnh

Job FM Metsemakers, MD, PhD

Department of General Practice,
Maastricht University,
The Netherlands

Introduction:

General practitioners (GPs) possess a wealth of information on the health of their patients. Hence, they are in a unique position to gather information for research, education or management.

Aim:

The chief goal of the Registration Network Family Practices is to establish a computerised database containing certain patient characteristics and all relevant health problems excluding minor, temporary illnesses. The database can be seen as a dynamic population sampling frame of chronic and/or severe morbidity, also including risk factors and psychosocial problems. The da­tabase has been set up primarily as a sampling frame, allowing researchers to identify patients with particu­lar health problems or combinations of problems. Furthermore the database can be used for longitudinal analysis.

Organisation:

On 1 December 2000, the RNH consisted of 55 general prac­titi­oners in 21 practices covering ap­proximately 100.000 patients. In all practices com­pu­terised health informa­tion systems were installed, replacing the hand written re­cords. Totally 5.0 FTE is available for GP’s and the staff.


Creo que esta referencia deja claro que el nombre no es el nombre de la base de datos, sino de la red de "general practitioners" (médicos de cabecera) y administrativos cuyo objetivo es crear una base de datos.

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family physician > médico de cabecera
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(KudoZ) English to Spanish translation of family physician: médico de cabecera [Medical (general) (Medical)].
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