PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Robert L. Williams
AU  - Robert L. Rhyne
TI  - No Longer Simply a Practice-based Research Network (PBRN): Health Improvement Networks
AID  - 10.3122/jabfm.2011.05.110102
DP  - 2011 Sep 01
TA  - The Journal of the American Board of Family
                Medicine
PG  - 485--488
VI  - 24
IP  - 5
4099  - http://www.jabfm.org/content/24/5/485.short
4100  - http://www.jabfm.org/content/24/5/485.full
SO  - J Am Board Fam Med2011 Sep 01; 24
AB  - While primary care Practice-based Research Networks are best known for their original, research purpose, evidence accumulating over the last several years is demonstrating broader values of these collaborations. Studies have demonstrated their role in quality improvement and practice change, in continuing professional education, in clinician retention in medically underserved areas, and in facilitating transition of primary care organization. A role in informing and facilitating health policy development is also suggested. Taking into account this more robust potential, we propose a new title, the Health Improvement Network, and a new vision for Practice-based Research Networks.