Results

The 17 PBRNs funded in the first round have completed their projects and published their results in a special supplement of the Annals of Family Medicine.

Prescription for Health: Changing Primary Care Practice to Foster Healthy Behaviors - Annals of Family Medicine July/August 2005 Volume 3, Supplement

P4H Primary Results Papers - Round 1

This supplement contains project-speciifc and overarching lessons about the opporunities and challenges of incorpoating health behavior change into routine primary care practice including:

1) Development of tools for use within primary care practices and for linking with community and health care system partners.
2) Novel ideas to help practices redesign and foster the implementation of innovations.
3) Importance of understanding how the context at the community, health system, practice and patient levels affects both the design and implementation of effective interventions.
4) New perspectives on the process of health behavior change and how it can be facilitated in a sustained partnership with patients.
5) Process of conducting research in practice-based networks in the current healthcare environment.
6) Application of models of practice change and health behavior change within the community practices.

In addition to this supplement, the 17 networks have also presented their work at the national meetings and through various newsletters and web sites.

Listing of Round 1 Dissemination Efforts by network (Microsoft Word, .DOC 108Kb)

Resources

A Guided Tour of Community-Based Participatory Research: An Annotated Bibliography

Practice-Based Research - "Blue Highways" on the NIH Roadmap

Practice-Based Research Gains Foothold at NIH

Communicating Science: Giving Research a Voice

A Short History of Primary Care Practice-based Research Networks: From Concept to Essential Research Laboratories

Recruiting patients to medical research: double blind randomised trial of "opt-in" versus "opt-out" strategies

A Primer of the HIPAA Privacy Rule for Practice-Based Researchers

Quit Smoking: Consumer Interactive Tool
AHRQ: Palm/pocket PC tool for quitting smoking. On November 18, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality released a new consumer tool for Palm(tm) and Pocket PCs to help smokers who want to quit. Quit Smoking: Consumer Interactive Tool, was developed around the PHS evidence-based recommendations, and helps smokers set up a program tailored to their individual needs. To use the application, the smoker plugs in the date he or she wants to quit, and the program counts back 5 days leading up to the quit date. It then offers a 5-day countdown of daily practical steps to help the smoker quit, such as identifying reasons to quit smoking; talking to the doctor about medications, including the nicotine patch or gum; and getting support from family and friends. More: pda.ahrq.gov. or the new toll-free National Quitline at 1-800-QUIT NOW.

RFA Announced for Small Research Grants for Primary Care Practice-Based Research Networks

CDC Guide to Community Services

Prescription for Health: Communicating with Primary Care Clinicians via Professional Societies, Report from Center for the Advancement of Health 2003, appendix

Radiant Communications: A Framework for Sustainable Nonprofit Organizations read the results

Limited I.T. for Patient Care in Physicians Offices: Issue Brief read the article

New AHRQ Tool for PDAs Helps Clinicians Select Preventive Services by Age and Gender

References about PBRNs
Download the PDF file

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)

AHRQ PBRN Resource Center

Federation of Practice-Based Research Networks