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

Communicating Science: Giving Research a Voice

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

Actual Causes of Death in the United States 2000 (pdf file)

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)

American Academy of Family Physicians

American Academy of Nurse Practitioners

American Academy of Pediatrics

American Academy of Physician Assistants

American Board of Family Practice

American College of Nurse Practitioners

American College of Physicians

American Geriatrics Society

American Medical Association

Society of General Internal Medicine