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Practice-Based Research NetworksTheir Current Level of Validity, Generalizability, and Potential for Wider Application
Kurt C. Stange, MD, PhD
Arch Fam Med. 1993;2(9):921-923.
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PRIMARY CARE, and particularly family practice, is widely seen as a vital part of the solution to the ills of the current health care system.1,2 Ideally, decisions about practice and policy should be based on data that characterize the nature of the practitioners, their patients, and the problems and treatments that constitute primary care practice.3 However, because of the concentration of researchers in tertiary care medical centers and the focus of family physicians and other generalists on patient care rather than research, these data have been largely missing.
PRACTICE-BASED NETWORKS ARE CRITICAL TO THE FUTURE OF PRIMARY CARE
Primary care research networks are increasingly seen as important for the future of primary care.4,5 Research from such networks will allow policy makers and practitioners to address primary care issues from the perspective of data rather than mere belief. A growing number of local, regional, statewide, national, and international
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Author Affiliations
Departments of Family Medicine and Epidemiology and Biostatistics Case Western Reserve University Cleveland, Ohio
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