Background

BC-CPCSSN is one of eleven primary care research networks from across Canada that contribute data to CPCSSN, the first and only pan-Canadian multi-disease electronic medical record (EMR) surveillance system. CPCSSN’s overall goals are practice quality improvement, chronic disease surveillance and management, and research.

BC-CPCSSN was established in 2008 and has approval from the University of British Columbia Research Ethics Board. It is a non-profit organization funded through the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) and Michael Smith Health Research BC.

Governance

BC-CPCSSN is part of the BC Primary Health Care Research Network (BC-PHCRN) which is in turn part of the Strategy for Patient Oriented Research (SPOR) Canadian Primary Care Research Network (CPCRN) funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR).