PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Heintzman, John
AU  - Gold, Rachel
AU  - Krist, Alexander
AU  - Crosson, Jay
AU  - Likumahuwa, Sonja
AU  - DeVoe, Jennifer E.
TI  - Practice-based Research Networks (PBRNs) Are Promising Laboratories for Conducting Dissemination and Implementation Research
AID  - 10.3122/jabfm.2014.06.140092
DP  - 2014 Nov 01
TA  - The Journal of the American Board of Family
                Medicine
PG  - 759--762
VI  - 27
IP  - 6
4099  - http://www.jabfm.org/content/27/6/759.short
4100  - http://www.jabfm.org/content/27/6/759.full
SO  - J Am Board Fam Med2014 Nov 01; 27
AB  - Dissemination and implementation science addresses the application of research findings in varied health care settings. Despite the potential benefit of dissemination and implementation work to primary care, ideal laboratories for this science have been elusive. Practice-based research networks (PBRNs) have a long history of conducting research in community clinical settings, demonstrating an approach that could be used to execute multiple research projects over time in broad and varied settings. PBRNs also are uniquely structured and increasingly involved in pragmatic trials, a research design central to dissemination and implementation science. We argue that PBRNs and dissemination and implementation scientists are ideally suited to work together and that the collaboration of these 2 groups will yield great value for the future of primary care and the delivery of evidence-based health care.