@article{01JPMMGM8P9JK4BA2SMMVZ7EF6,
  abstract     = {{Objective Collaborate, Analyse, Research and Audit (CARA) project set out to provide an infrastructure to enable Irish general practitioners (GPs) to use their routinely collected patient management software (PMS) data to better understand their patient population, disease management and prescribing through data dashboards. This paper explains the design and development of the CARA infrastructure.Methods The first exemplar dashboard was developed with GPs and focused on antibiotic prescribing to develop and showcase the proposed infrastructure. The data integration process involved extracting, loading and transforming de-identified patient data into data models which connect to the interactive dashboards for GPs to visualise, compare and audit their data.Results The architecture of the CARA infrastructure includes two main sections: extract, load and transform process (ELT, de-identified patient data into data models) and a Representational State Transfer Application Programming Interface (REST API) (which provides the security barrier between the data models and their visualisation on the CARA dashboard). CARAconnect was created to facilitate the extraction and de-identification of patient data from the practice database.Discussion The CARA infrastructure allows seamless connectivity with and compatibility with the main PMS in Irish general practice and provides a reproducible template to access and visualise patient data. CARA includes two dashboards, a practice overview and a topic-specific dashboard (example focused on antibiotic prescribing), which includes an audit tool, filters (within practice) and between-practice comparisons.Conclusion CARA supports evidence-based decision-making by providing GPs with valuable insights through interactive data dashboards to optimise patient care, identify potential areas for improvement and benchmark their performance against other practices. Supplementary file 1. Graphical abstractConclusion CARA supports evidence-based decision-making by providing GPs with valuable insights through interactive data dashboards to optimise patient care, identify potential areas for improvement and benchmark their performance against other practices. Supplementary file 1. Graphical abstract}},
  articleno    = {{e101059}},
  author       = {{Garzon-Orjuela, Nathaly and Garcia Pereira, Agustin and Vornhagen, Heike and Stasiewicz, Katarzyna and Parveen, Sana and Amin, Doaa and Porwol, Lukasz and d'Aquin, Mathieu and Collins, Claire and Stanley, Fintan and O'Callaghan, Mike and Vellinga, Akke}},
  issn         = {{2632-1009}},
  journal      = {{BMJ HEALTH & CARE INFORMATICS}},
  keywords     = {{Information Technology,Access to Information,Data Science}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  number       = {{1}},
  pages        = {{8}},
  title        = {{Design and architecture of the CARA infrastructure for visualising and benchmarking patient data from general practice}},
  url          = {{http://doi.org/10.1136/bmjhci-2024-101059}},
  volume       = {{31}},
  year         = {{2024}},
}

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