Background In the past decade, Lynn Etheredge presented a vision for the Learning Health
System (LHS) as an opportunity for increasing the value of health care via rapid learning …

Purpose: Practice-based research networks (PBRNs) have developed dynamically across
the world, paralleling the emergence of the primary care discipline. While this review …

Objective Following a successful 2005–2012 phase with three regional practice-based
research networks (PBRNs), a single, unified national network called “The National Dental …

Purpose Clinical research in primary care is relatively scarce. Practice-based research
networks (PBRNs) are research infrastructures to overcome hurdles associated with …

Introduction General practitioners often criticise clinical trials for their poor applicability in
primary care, which may at least partially explain why their engagement in primary care …

Background Recruitment rates of general practitioners (GPs) to do research vary widely.
This may be related to the ability of a study to incorporate incentives for GPs and minimise …

Objective To assess the factors that contributed to the successful completion of recruitment
for the largest clinical trial ever conducted in Australia, the Aspirin in Reducing Events in the …

Introduction: Structuring patient and practice data into episodes formed the foundation of the
earliest evidence base of family medicine. We aim to make patients' narratives part of the …

Background A well-functioning general practice sector that has a strong research
component is recognised as a key foundation of any modern health system. General …

Introduction: Following inception in 2005 as a multiregional practice-based research
network (PBRN), the “National Dental PBRN” expanded nationwide in 2012, and in 2019 …