Measuring the Impact of Practice-based Research Networks (PBRNs)
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Practice-based research networks (PBRNs) continue their upward trajectory in scope and numbers, now engaging community practices that reach approximately 15% of the US population. In this issue, Peterson et al,[1][1] characterizes US PBRNs based on data from the 2011 Agency for Healthcare Research
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Reports of PBRN performance metrics are rare for both medical and dental PBRNs, and have primarily focused on the number of studies completed and the number of participants involved.
“Indeed, reports of PBRN performance metrics are rare for both medical and dental PBRNs, and have primarily focused on the number of studies completed and the number of participants involved [6,14,15].”
From Structure, function, and productivity from the National Dental Practice-Based Research Network. (2022) · cites this paper as [14]
In “Measuring the Impact of Practice-based Research Networks (PBRNs)” (page unavailable), Werner reports counts of completed studies and network members and calls for more comprehensive PBRN evaluation. The paper does not establish that performance-metric reports are rare for both medical and dental PBRNs, or report counts of study participants; network members are not necessarily study participants. (LLM, conf=0.84)
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- Authors
- Werner, J. J.
- Affiliations
- Case Western Reserve University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Werner, J. J.
- Venue
- The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine
- Published
- 2012-09-01
- Volume
- 25
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 557-559
- ISSN
- 1557-2625 (ISSN-L)
- 1558-7118
- PMC
- PMC4120825
- OpenAlex
- W2138434242
- Cited by
- 14
- References
- 17
- Citations by year
- 2025: 2 · 2022: 2 · 2020: 1 · 2018: 2 · 2017: 1 · 2015: 2 · 2014: 1 · 2013: 3
- FWCI
- 3.41
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institutes of Health (UL1TR000439)
- National Cancer Institute (P30CA043703)
- National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Primary Care and Health Outcomes
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Health Sciences Research and Education
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Health Policy Implementation Science
- Keywords
- practice-based research networks, community practice, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, family medicine research
- MeSH terms
- Health Services Research, Humans, Primary Health Care, Community Networks
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