Family Medicine Network (FaMe-Net) is a practice-based research network (PBRN) affiliated to the Radboud University Medical Centre in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. FaMe-Net is the world’s oldest (1967) and still functioning PBRN. It is known for highly accurate and uniform registration.
Learn how doctor-patient consultation in the office results in the registration of data in an Episode of Care in just four infographics.
In the Netherlands, almost all inhabitants are listed with a general practitioner (GP) / family physician (FP), who deals with all health problems requiring professional medical care and is the gatekeeper to specialist care. The Dutch health care is explained here.
FaMe-Net is the continuation of two PBRNs, that fused in 2013: the Continuous Morbidity Registration (CMR) Nijmegen, registering epidemiology since 1967, and the ‘Transition Project’, registering since 1985. Both are built around episode registration, in which all information belonging to one health problem comes together in an episode of care.
The founding father of the world’s first PBRN (the Continuous Morbidity Registration), was Frans Huygen. He was professor in general practice in Nijmegen, the Netherlands, studying morbidity patterns in families, using data from the CMR. Moreover, he published the first edition of the medical textbook ‘Family Medicine’ in 1978, describing family medicine using data from the CMR.
FaMe-Net uses TransHis as its electronic patient record. TransHis is only used by the general practices participating in FaMe-Net.
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Current general practices | Number of enlisted patients (2021) | Start date of registering within FaMe-Net |
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Huisartsenpraktijk Amstelveen-Zuid | 3769 | 17-04-1989 |
Huisartsenpraktijk Oosterhout | 10024 | 02-12-2012 |
Universitair gezondheidscentrum Heijendael | 5044 | 01-01-2013 |
Huisartsenpraktijk Thermion | 11438 | 13-05-2013 |
Huisartsenpraktijk Bast en van Damme | 1258 | 01-06-2019 |
Wijkgezondheidscentrum Lindenholt | 9274 | 01-01-2021 |
Total | 40807 |
Previous general practices | Number of enlisted patients at end of registration | Start date of registering within FaMe-Net | End date of registering within FaMe-Net |
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Huisartsenpraktijk Franeker (Het Bolwerk) | 5660 | 01-01-1995 | 31-12-2016 |
Huisartsenpraktijk Olst (P. Dijksterhuis) | 2533 | 01-09-2001 | 31-12-2018 |