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National Institutes of Health Eliminates Funding for National Architecture Linking Primary Care Research

From the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN

Correspondence: Corresponding author: Kevin A. Peterson, Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, 925 Delaware Street SE, Suite 220, Dinnaken Building, Minneapolis, MN, 55414 (E-mail: peter223{at}umn.edu)

With the ending of the National Electronic Clinical Trial and Research Network (NECTAR) pilot programs and the abridgement of Clinical Research Associate initiative, the National Institutes of Health Roadmap presents a strategic shift for practice-based research networks from direct funding of a harmonized national infrastructure of cooperating research networks to a model of local engagement of primary care clinics performing practice-based research under the aegis of regional academic health centers through Clinical and Translational Science Awards. Although this may present important opportunities for partnering between community practices and large health centers, for primary care researchers, the promise of a transformational change that brings a unified national primary care community into the clinical research enterprise seems likely to remain unfulfilled.