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.

Resources

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

Active Living, Obesity, and Nutrition

Practice-Based Research Gains Foothold at NIH

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

Body Mass Index (BMI) to Track Childhood Obesity

Television Health Series Webcast - The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation funded research to identify key barriers to routine body mass index (BMI) screening and monitoring of children among a variety of pediatric care practitioners. Learn more about this issue.

Health Affairs

Milbank Quarterly

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)

The Robert Graham Center: Policy Studies in Family Practice and Primary Care

AAP Center for Health Policy and Research

The Dartmouth Atlas of Healthcare