Collecting information in general practice: 'just by pressing a single button'?
What did we have to do to get the data for the second Dutch National Survey of General Practice
(DNSGP-2)? Will all this be necessary for a possible third survey as well? Can policy information be
derived from raw electric medical records, just by pressing a single button? These questions will be
addressed below, resulting in recipes for acquiring and using data from general practices for
research purposes. We start with a brief history. (aut. ref.)