Abstract. Poster presentation Grey Literature Conference GL20, New Orleans, December 2018. “M@dNotes Project”. Giving colour to Grey Literature in General Practice. A collaborative GPs knowledge network. Sharing the results of research and scientific production is crucial for the survival of all disciplines. Health information is becoming uncertain and powerful economic interests disrupting medical information has triggered a loss of credibility. M@dNotes project (in Spanish NotasL@cas), is the by-product of non-profit collaborative international knowledge network of general practitioners, family physicians, and healthcare workers. One of the aims of this network is to discuss the validity of the information available on sensitive subjects and build a knowledge exchange network inside a community of practice. The project was born because we realized that more than 95% of the postgraduate and pregraduate research/reports/ scholar works (monographic works) to accomplish or finished one part of the training were finally lost and unpublished. Most of them come from interesting "minds" and are interesting topics to improve the applying of evidence in medical healthcare. From this perspective, M@dNotes is a unique local platform to rescue knowledge and support exchange and collaboration. Perhaps is isolated due to the circumstance of being restricted to few countries or a small group of practice. Nevertheless, we are trying to improve our qualifications in order to link M@dNotes to an open access network. It has been created to share different materials excluded from traditional academic publishing and commercial distribution channels: monographic, commented articles, files with references searches. These materials considered “grey literature” are the product of intense learning process and has been produced to achieve a qualification, be presented in a conference or were collected by users spontaneously through the web searches, with a knowledge purpose. Many of them qualified with an appropriate level because were submitted to a peer review or judged by a scientific committee to get an approval. The project includes an indexing method (Q Codes and ICPC) to manage and retrieve the materials received. Q-Codes are intended for indexing Family medicine related documentation jointly with the International Classification of Primary Care (ICPC). The project provides a particular folder to upload and share the documents. A web blog is the dissemination tool or friendly interface to share and retrieve the documents shared in the network. Through a facility in the cloud, it is possible to access an excel file with all the materials shared, codes assigned and the hyperlink to get a pdf file of each material

1. The M@dNotes Project
Giving colour to Grey Literature in General Practice.
A collaborative GPs knowledge network
Miguel Pizzanelli1, Melissa Resnick2, Elena Cardillo3, Marc Jamoulle4
1. MD, Mph. Department of Family Practice. University of Montevideo (UDELAR), Uruguay
2. PhD, MLS, MS. Biomedical Informatician, Medical Librarian, Terminologist. Houston, Texas, United States of America
3. PhD. Health Information Sciences, Institute of Informatics and Telematics, National Research Council, Italy
4. MD, PhD. Family Physician, Terminologist, Belgium Contact ; miguel.pizzanelli@gmail.com
Poster # GL 20 New Orleans 2018
The M@dNotes Project https://notaslocasmadnotes.wordpress.com/
• Mad Notes is a collaborative, volunteer and non‐profit international, industry‐ independent network.
• We promote a space of critical thinking and collective creation for open‐minded general practitioners and primary care workers.
• The project proposes a methodology for registering, sharing and preserving scientific production from the field of GP/FCM activity.
• A system to share monographies, qualitative research reports, scientific reports, searches of materials, bibliographic references and
resources or materials oriented to research or teaching purposes, using Google Drive facilities and a Wordpress blog
• An editorial committee ensures the quality of the published material and reaches the consent of the authors
• A web blog provides tools to find documents: using categories to index subjects and tags associated to codification
Metadata and codification tools
• indexing of the citations is done by the Core Content Classification of General
Practice/Family Medicine (3CGP), a mix of the International Classification of
Primary Care (ICPC‐2) for clinical items and Q‐Codes, a new contextual
classification in GP/FM and PHC for professional items: see
http://3cgp.docpatient.net/
• Each code is linked to 3CGP available in the HeTOP database (see www.hetop.eu)
Results
• Collaborator of the network can send their sources to: notaslocasmadnotes@gmail.com
• The list of analysed material is available on Google Drive: https://tinyurl.com/Fichas‐Compartidas
• Each analysis is edited on the wordpress blog; https://notaslocasmadnotes.wordpress.com/
Q-Codes Categories (left) and indexing (above)
of the Madnotes database, showing the link of each code to the
terminological base (QD442 Disease mongering)
Mad Notes vignette with rubrics (date, author, title, indexing)
Online table of the available entries (partial view)
Themes and origine of the posts
Categories & tags of the
Madnote base
Blog stat 2017/2018
Limits
• this work is the beginning of a research in the field of knowledge
management in Family Medicine
• an attempt by dedicated volunteers not to miss the knowledge
disseminated in the exchanges of family doctors
• with limited means and generic tools
• in a traditionally considered non-scientifically productive branch
• using some promising bibliographic tools
• in need of professionalization
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Grey Literature and its relevance in General practice
Access to scientific literature it is really changing since we have global democratization of knowledge. (Open Access movement)
Sharing the results of research and scientific production is crucial for the survival and development of all disciplines.
Knowledge Management (KM) in General practice/ Family Medicine (GP/FM) and Primary Health Care (PHC)
• High complexity by intertwined human and technical approaches
• Content not harmonized. No uniform table of content for both disciplines
• Classification system available only for clinical purposes (International Classification of Primary Care – ICPC‐2)
• No existing contextual features classification
Each year, research meetings, virtual conferences, websites, blogs produce an amount of communicable data usually with restricted
circulation in local networks or small groups.
The project emerged when verifying that more than 95% of the postgraduate and pregraduate research/reports/ scholar works
(monograph) presented as part of the training process was finally lost and unpublished.