Use of the Core Content Classification in General Practice (3GCP) for qualitative analysis of context and practice. Ten-year study of undergraduate students’ final works in the Integrated Master's Degree in Medicine at the University of Coimbra

Background: General Practice/Family Medicine includes approaches to the biological, technological, behavioural, sociological and anthropological domains. Objectives: To document the domains addressed in the final assignments of the Integrated Master’s Degree in Medicine at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Coimbra, in the area of GP/FM. Material and methods: Observational study of the titles of final assignments, between 2008 and 2017, granted by the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Coimbra. A domain analysis using as codes the International Classification in Primary Care-2 and the Q-Codes, a context classification in Primary Care, year of elaboration and gender of author was carried out for each title of final assignment. A descriptive and inferential analysis was performed through parametric and nonparametric tests. Results: 169 papers were analysed, 23.1% written by male students, with a positive overall growth dynamics (Δ = +7) between 2008 and 2017. Q-Codes were registered 276 times, while the ICPC-2 codes were used 133 times. Under the Q-Codes, “doctor’s issues” is the most frequently addressed (n = 112; 67.2%), and under the International Classification in Primary Care-2 classifications, the chapter “Psychological” was predominant (n = 35; 21%). Under the Q-Codes, subcategories “primary care setting” (n = 26; 15.6%), “health issue management” (n = 23; 13.8%) and “unable to code, unclear” (22; 13.2%) were dominant. Within the International Classification in Primary Care-2, the subcategories “diabetes noninsulin dependent” (n = 22; 13.2%), “depressive disorder” (8, 4.8%) and “hypertension uncomplicated” (8; 4.8%) were predominantly focused on. Conclusions: The 3CGP may become a professional tool, allowing for more precise identification of final works, for a better communication method in medical activity and for avoiding the loss of previously developed works.info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersio

New minimum distance bounds for linear codes over GF(5)

AbstractLet [n,k,d]q-codes be linear codes of length n, dimension k and minimum Hamming distance d over GF(q). In this paper, 32 new codes over GF(5) are constructed and the nonexistence of 51 codes is proved

Indexing grey multilingual literature in General Practice: Family medicine in the era of semantic web

peer reviewedProblem/Goal: Sharing the results of research with General Practitioners (GPs) is crucial for the survival of the discipline of General Practice / Family Medicine (GP/FM). The production of abstracts in GP/FM probably exceeds 15,000 per year worldwide. Each abstract often represents two years of work for its authors and is expressed in local languages. Only 45% of them are published in indexed medical journals. Usual indexing systems like MeSH are not multilingual nor adapted to the particular field of GP/FM. Consequently, these abstracts are lacking bibliographic control and more than half of the research presented by GPs at congresses is lost. Considering the absence of appropriate domain-specific terminologies or classification systems, we propose a new multilingual indexing system. The existing International Classification of Primary Care (ICPC) is currently used for clinical purposes and has now been expanded with a taxonomy related to contextual aspects (called Q-Codes) such as education, research, practice organization, ethics or policy in GP/FM, currently not captured. The set is proposed under the name Core Content Classification in General Practice (3CGP). The aim is to facilitate indexing of GP/FM specific scientific work and to improve performance in information storage and retrieval for research purposes in this field. Research Method/Procedure: Using qualitative analysis, a corpus of 1,702 abstracts from six GP/FM- related European congresses was analyzed to identify main themes discussed by GPs (e.g., continuity, accessibility or medical ethics), handled in a domain-specific taxonomy called Q-Codes and translated in 8 languages. In addition, a methodology for building a lightweight ontology (in OWL-2) was applied to Q-Codes, adding object and datatype properties to the hierarchical relations, including mapping to the MeSH thesaurus, Babelnet (www.babelnet.org) and Dbpedia. Finally, the Q-Codes in 8 languages have been integrated healthcare terminology service (www.hetop.eu/q) with a companion website (http://3cgp.docpatient.net). Anticipated Results of the Research: The creation and the on-line publication of this multilingual terminological resource, for indexing abstracts and for facilitating Medline searches, could reduce loss of knowledge in the domain. In addition, through better indexing of the grey literature (congress abstracts, master’s and doctoral thesis), we hope to enhance the accessibility of research results of GP/FM domain and promote the emergence of networks of researchers. First result of experimental implementations of the new indexing system will be presented. Indication of costs related to the project: This project has not been funded. 3CGP is placed under Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share-Alike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). ICPC is copyrighted by WONCA. © 2018 Oriental Scientific Publishing Company. All rights reserved

3CGP Core Content Classification of General Practice / Family Medicine - Synopsis

Donne accès par hyperlien au contenu de ICPC-2 et des Q-Codes sur le serveur HeTop. L’ensemble forme un synoptique des principaux domaines de la profession médecin généraliste / medecin de familleProvides hyperlinked access to the content of ICPC-2 and Q-Codes on the HeTop server. Together, they form a synoptic overview of the main areas of the general practitioner/family doctor profession

Bibliothèque virtuele et ressources sur la prévention quaternaire

Since Quaternary Prevention is very extensive and complex, during the design process for database input, an indexing structure with the use of coding tools and categories was considered. This design will allow the addition of materials and will provide easy access to them. To add documents, 13 data fields must be populated. To access the input data form, for the purpose of adding documents, use this link: http://j.tinyurl.com/P4-Library To avoid duplication of data entries, it is necessary to review and perform an audit. In the beginning, we will provide this tutorial to a few data entry collaborators. To become a data entry collaborator, please send an e-mail to the following address: [email protected] Charts are available in eight languages to code with Q-Codes: http://3cgp.docpatient.net/tabular/Since the beginning of the work on Latin American networks on Quaternary Prevention, it has been necessary to provide a bibliographic database and resources with the objective of disseminating the concept and its application. The current platform has been designed to be augmented from various sources and shared with whomever necessary. The documents and materials that are uploaded to the platform can be shared through an Excel document. The entries have been coded with the multilingual terminology of general practice and family medicine, Q-Codes (http://3cgp.docpatient.net/2017160

Construction of Hadamard Z₂Z₄Q₈-codes for each allowable value of the rank and dimension of the kernel

This work deals with Hadamard Z₂Z₄Q₈-codes, which are binary codes after a Gray map from a subgroup of a direct product of Z₂, Z₄ and Q₈ groups, where Q₈ is the quaternionic group. In a previous work, these kind of codes were classified in five shapes. In this paper we analyze the allowable range of values for the rank and dimension of the kernel, which depends on the particular shape of the code. We show that all these codes can be represented in a standard form, from a set of generators, which help to understand the characteristics of each shape. The main results we present are the characterization of Hadamard Z₂Z₄Q₈-codes as a quotient of a semidirect product of Z₂Z₄-linear codes and, on the other hand, the construction of Hadamard Z₂Z₄Q₈-codes with each allowable pair of values for the rank and dimension of the kernel

Themes related to prevention in the Q-Codes taxonomy. Call to a collaborative exploration into the abstracts of Europrev meetings

Background For the documentation of the clinical data, the International Classification of Primary Care (ICPC-2) is used, often in conjunction with the more granular International Classification of Diseases (ICD). For retrieval of scientific bibliographic information in GP/FM, Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) are used. With over 25,000 available MeSH descriptors, indexing is not easy, and yet not all aspects of the broad field of GM/FM are covered . ICPC-2 has been developed to identify reasons for encounter, symptoms, acts performed or requested and diagnosis in daily practice: It captures clinical encounters for epidemiological research. But, it was not constructed to reflect the non-clinical aspects of the profession, such as organizational, managerial, educational, and investigational aspects. Recently, a new taxonomy of organizational aspect of GM/FM has been developed to ameliorate this situation. The purpose of this development was to provide tools to exploit modern technology in terminology for information storage and retrieval systems , such as machine learning, semantic web techniques and natural language processing (NLP). The 182 concepts identified were thoroughly described in terminology records, which are freely accessible on the web (www.hetop.eu/Q). All concept and definitions were translated into 8 languages and are available online. (http://3cgp.woncaeurope.org). A book is available in 6 languages To develop the Q-codes 1700 abstracts of GP/FM congresses have been carefully analyzed. This has been the basis of the work. As a team of the EGRPN has also analyzed 600 EGPRN abstracts and developed a taxonomy of research, I have this work has been incorporated to update the QR domain. Thus ongoing Q-Codes are based on the analysis of 2300 abstracts The most important fact is that there is a Q-Codes only if the theme has been discussed by physicians during congresses. This is a bottom-up approach which contrast with the expert approach of the authors of textbook The Q-Codes have been integrated with the clinical classification ICPC-2 into a coherent whole, under the name Core Content of General Practice and Family Medicine (3CGP), for further enhancement of medical documentation and indexing of GP/FM master thesis and congress abstracts The value of a taxonomy is determined by the quality and speed of the maintenance and updating process. This will be handled by a working group of the Wonca International Classification Committee (WICC) (www.ph3c.org/Q) already authors of ICPC-2. Aim to present the preventive aspects of the Q-codes, a taxonomy specifically directed to describe the managerial aspects of GP/FM. To make a call to Europrev members to come an board of the Q-codes working group and to help to make more accurate the preventive fields in the Q-Codes taxonomy download abstract belowPeer reviewe