TY - JOUR T1 - A Practice-Based Research Network (PBRN) Roadmap for Evaluating COVID-19 in Community Health Centers: A Report From the OCHIN PBRN JF - The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine JO - J Am Board Fam Med SP - 774 LP - 778 DO - 10.3122/jabfm.2020.05.200053 VL - 33 IS - 5 AU - Jennifer E. DeVoe AU - Sonja M. Likumahuwa-Ackman AU - Heather E. Angier AU - Nathalie Huguet AU - Deborah J. Cohen AU - Susan A. Flocke AU - Miguel Marino AU - Rachel Gold Y1 - 2020/09/01 UR - http://www.jabfm.org/content/33/5/774.abstract N2 - Background: Primary care practice−based research networks (PBRNs) are critical laboratories for generating evidence from real-world settings, including studying natural experiments. Primary care's response to the novel coronavirus-19 (COVID-19) pandemic is arguably the most impactful natural experiment in our lifetime.Evaluating the Impact of COVID-19: We briefly describe the OCHIN PBRN of community health centers (CHCs), its partnership with implementation scientists, and how we are leveraging this infrastructure and expertise to create a rapid research response evaluating how CHCs across the country responded to the COVID-19 pandemic.COVID-19 Research Roadmap: Our research agenda focuses on asking: How has care delivery in CHCs changed due to COVID-19? What impact has COVID-19 had on the delivery of preventive services in CHCs? Which PBRN services (e.g., data surveillance, training, evidence synthesis) are most impactful to real-world practices? What decision-making strategies were used in the PBRN and its practices to make real-time changes in response to the pandemic? What critical factors in successfully and sustainably transforming primary care are illuminated by pandemic-driven changes?Discussion and Conclusions: PBRNs enable real-world evaluation of practice change and natural experiments, and thus are ideal laboratories for implementation science research. We present a real-time example of how a PBRN Implementation Laboratory activated a response to study a historic natural experiment, to help other PBRNs charting a course through this pandemic. ER -