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Practice-Based Research Networks: Asphalt on the Blue Highways of Primary Care Research

Donald E. Nease, John M. Westfall and Elisabeth Wilson
The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine November 2024, jabfm.2023.230493R1; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3122/jabfm.2023.230493R1
Donald E. Nease Jr.
From the Department of Family Medicine, School of Medicine, Colorado Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO (DEN); Department of Family Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, DARTNet Institute, Aurora, CO (JMW); Department of Community and Family Medicine, Dartmouth Health and Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth College, Lebanon, NH (EW).
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John M. Westfall
From the Department of Family Medicine, School of Medicine, Colorado Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO (DEN); Department of Family Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, DARTNet Institute, Aurora, CO (JMW); Department of Community and Family Medicine, Dartmouth Health and Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth College, Lebanon, NH (EW).
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Elisabeth Wilson
From the Department of Family Medicine, School of Medicine, Colorado Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO (DEN); Department of Family Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, DARTNet Institute, Aurora, CO (JMW); Department of Community and Family Medicine, Dartmouth Health and Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth College, Lebanon, NH (EW).
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