Advancing clinical research in the Spanish primary care service: Challenges, opportunities, and lessons from other European models
Jose Cárdenas-Quesada, Ángela Remesal-Doblado, Vanesa Garrido-Rodríguez, M. Isabel Lucena, Leovigildo Ginel-Mendoza, Salvador León Cárdenas-Viedma, Judith Sanabria-Cabrera · 2025
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Jose Cárdenas-Quesada and six co-authors wrote a 2025 opinion piece on why clinical research barely happens in Spanish primary care, and how to fix that. Family doctors see patients first and follow them for years, an ideal setting for studies, yet Spain's primary care research stays weak even as the country leads Europe in starting trials overall. The authors compare Spain with stronger European models in a narrative review spanning three decades.
Working models abroad share shared data systems, dedicated research support, and protected time for doctors. Spain's barriers are heavy workloads, thin training, uneven facilities, and slow approvals. Digital registries and remote monitoring open new room to grow. The authors propose four reforms, from linked registries to simpler ethics paths, to turn primary care into a research hub.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Jose Cárdenas-Quesada, Ángela Remesal-Doblado, Vanesa Garrido-Rodríguez, M. Isabel Lucena, Leovigildo Ginel-Mendoza, Salvador León Cárdenas-Viedma, Judith Sanabria-Cabrera |
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| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 26 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |