The International Classification of Primary Care (ICPC-2) is available in many languages and ranks the most common clinical problems encountered in primary care. The non-clinical concepts treated by family physicians were described following careful analysis of family physician communications at many congresses and referred to as Q-Codes. ICPC-2 in 22 languages including process codes and Q-Codes in 12 languages were published online on the Health Terminology/Ontology Portal (HeTOP, developed at the Rouen University Hospital) under the acronym 3CGP for “Core concept Classification in General Practice / Family Medicine”. The headings in both classifications have an Unique Resource Identifier (URI) and are available in both Excel and Web Ontology Language (OWL) formats. The topics and codes are linked to the large classifications existing through the HeTOP multi-terminology server. 20% of ICPC codes and all Q-Codes are related to corresponding MeSH concepts with automatic access to a bibliography on PubMed. New translations can be introduced directly from a standardized Excel file. They can also be edited online in an advanced mode. 3CGP is used as a resource for the teaching of family medicine in Belgium (French speaking), Portugal and Uruguay. The French-speaking doctors in training (ULB-ULg-UCL) and the students of the University of Coimbra in Portugal use it to index their work of end of study (master thesis). In Uruguay, the Department of General Medicine indexes a grey literature database with this system. The HeTOP application saves action logs which makes possible the analysis of the site traffic (excluding robots and scientists with edition permission). The poster, which gives access to the website and Uniform Resource Locators (URIs), shows available data at the end of September 2019. It is noted that ICPC was the subject of 1,253 individual searches with 3,949 views (surfing on the items) in August 2019, which is to this day the highlight of monthly attendance. The non-clinical concepts exposed in the Q-codes were the subject of 1,597 searches and 9,887 views in February 2019, during which time Belgian students are encouraged to find the research theme for their final work. Unsurprisingly, the most used language is French, followed by English, then Portuguese and Spanish. More than 500 different sections of ICPC-2 were consulted, including all procedure codes. All sections of the Q-Codes (i.e. 182) were consulted between 100 and 550 times. Although the use of 3CGP for teaching general medicine and the indexation of its work has not yet been the subject of a validation study, it is shown that the system enjoys factual validation.

1. 3CGP (ICPC+Q-Codes) :
• is in use to index master thesis in GP/FM in French speaking Belgium and Portugal
• Is in use to teach classification and content of GP/FM in vocational training
• In indexing grey literature in GP/FM (Uruguay)
• Access to the database is granted in edition for further translations
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Stefan Darmoni, MD, PhD
Exploring GP/FM content : Views and queries of ICPC and Q-Codes
on the HeToP database
• International Classification of Primary Care, 2d edition (ICPC-2) ie
clinical issues and Q-Codes, non clinical issues in Family practice
are available online in multiple language
• Since 2017, ICPC-2 and Q-Codes are edited on the on the Health
Terminology/Ontology Portal (HeTOP) of the Department of
Information and Informatics of the University of Rouen (France)
• HeTOP, a multilingual multiterminology database allows the
publication of 22 available translations of ICPC-2 and 12 of Q-
Codes freely available among 70 others terminologies.
Explanation in 12 languages on
http://3cgp.docpatient.net/
https://www.hetop.eu/3CGP
English – Español – Ελληνικά – Français –
ქართული – Italiano – 한국어 – Nederlands –
Português – tiếng Việt – Türk – Українська
 ARBO ICPC-2 top tree • Q-codes
 ARBOPROC - Process
CODE NB_VIEWS
1 R81 2682
2 R74 2278
3 A87 2118
4 A78 311
5 B90 217
6 P15 206
7 D70 199
8 A79 197
9 A29 194
10 A77 189
11 D99 184
12 T82 165
13 P03 162
14 P99 141
15 P70 137
16 A92 130
17 P24 121
18 P80 121
19 S10 113
20 T99 112
Top 20 ICPC codes searched for
LANGUAGE NB_QUERIES
fr 6443
en 4314
pt 472
es 464
tr 438
uk 405
it 303
nl 291
ka 173
el 42
de 18
fi 11
ko 9
vi 8
Numbers of ICPC queries by language
People are looking for ICPC codes
People are looking for Q-Codes
LANGUAGE NB_QUERIES
fr 8226
en 5114
pt 2576
es 852
ko 125
vi 99
uk 80
tr 55
nl 46
ka 27
it 22
de 19
el 11
ru 7
Numbers of Q-Codes
queries by language
CODE NB_VIEWS
QD 1640
QC 1496
QS 1442
QR 1182
QP 1157
QT42 1153
QT 1095
QS1 1009
QC51 986
QS41 971
QD4 932
QR22 727
QD44 709
QS13 694
QR3 633
QD323 612
QS33 594
QC1 578
QE31 578
Top 20 Q-Codes
searched for
Linked example of Q-codes content
QT42 online knowledge-sharing
QC51 violencia de género
QS41 οικογενειακός ιατρός
QR22 toplum kökenli çalışma
QD44 사차 예방
QS13 quản lý thông tin sức khỏe
QD323 prise de décision partagée
QE31 ეუთანაზია
QS33 Координація допомоги
Each rubrics has its own address (URI - Uniform resource identifier) All databases available in Excel and Web Ontology Language (OWL)
A Synopsis of
Family Medicine
http://3cgp.docpatient.net/a-synopsis-for-family-medicine/
• Jamoulle, M. (2017). Towards a system of concepts for Family Medicine. Multilingual indexing in General Practice. Family Medicine in the era of Semantic Web [doctoral thesis]. Liege: University of Liege. https://orbi.uliege.be/handle/2268/216132
• Tavares, A., Santiago, L. M., Jamoulle, M., Rosendo, I., & Simões, J. A. (2019). Use of 3GCP in Integrated Master's of Medicine at the University of Coimbra. Family Medicine and Primary Care https://orbi.uliege.be/handle/2268/226901
• Pizzanelli M, Jamoulle M. “M@dNotes Project”. Giving colour to Grey Literature. Rev Bras Med Fam Comunidade. 2019;14(41):1759 https://orbi.uliege.be/handle/2268/239512
• Jamoulle, M., Augusto, D. K., Pizzanelli, M., …., & Darmoni, S. (2019). Une base de connaissance multilingue et dynamique en ligne pour la médecine générale et les soins primaires. The Pan African medical journal, 32. https://orbi.uliege.be/handle/2268/226702