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Mission
To Cultivate, conduct and disseminate primary
care research that improves health of patients, families and their communities.
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AAFP National Research Network Jennifer K. Carroll, MD, MPH - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
AAFP National Research Network Jennifer K. Carroll, MD, MPH - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
AAFP National Research Network Jennifer K. Carroll, MD, MPH Director, AAFP NRN Mission To Cultivate, conduct and disseminate primary care research that improves health of patients, families and their communities. 2 Vision All family
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Vision
All family physicians engaged to advance knowledge and promote optimal primary health care for all.
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- Promoting Primary Care
- Research Video. Click here .
What is practice-based research in family medicine?
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Why is family medicine research so important?
- Q1. How many office visits were there to family
physicians in 2016?
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Answer: 928.6 million office visits to physicians of which 54.6% were to primary care physicians
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Why is family medicine research so important?
- Q2. What % of the NIH budget goes toward
family medicine research? Answer: 0.2%
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NRN member practices
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Achievements and Milestones
The AAFP NRN has over 110 publications http://www.aafp.org/nrn-publications. Since its inception in December 1999, the AAFP NRN has received over 110 grants and cooperative agreements totaling over $29 million. AAFP NRN is one of eight collaborative institutions awarded AHRQ P30 Center of
- Excellence. NRN is the core center for 13 +
research networks.
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Guiding Principles
- Whole person care
- Primary care includes
population/ community health
- Respect, collaboration
- Primary care access is
seamless and easy to navigate for patients
- Promote health equity
- Study ways for
primary care to be more efficient
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Who we are
# active studies
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FTEs of staff/faculty/PIs and where located Project and team structure size range Partnering institutions Study types (designs) Study sizes (range)
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Snapshot of current, planned, pending projects
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Group activity
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Cognitive Impairment in Older Adults:
Practical Tools and Resources for Early Detection, Management, and Support
Goal: provide primary care clinicians with a consensus-based, effective and practical platform of currently existing tools and evidence to screen, assess, diagnose, and effectively manage older adults with or at risk for cognitive decline and dementia Funded by Eli Lilly and Company
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Cognitive Care Kit Project
- Recruited ten Family Physicians with high
engagement in cognitive issues in older adults
- FPs identified and prioritized tools and
resources for dissemination through an effective platform for use in practice
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Toolkit
- Link to toolkit: http://aafpcognitivecarekit.info/
- Divided into topical sections
- Includes recommended tools and resources for
physicians
- Also includes resources for the patients,
families and caregivers
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5 over-arching priorities
- 1. Practice transformation
- 2. Team-based care/new care models
- 3. Electronic health records & health
information technology
- 4. Cost reform and new payment models
- 5. Population health
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Research priority areas
Value relevance PI/NRN expertise Methods relevance Responsive and relevant: 5 cross-cutting themes
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Methods relevance
Development and application of adaptive, pragmatic randomized designs Emphasis on importance of understanding context and variation Development of multi-level approaches to inform interventions’ design, theory, measurement and assessment Use of mixed methods Quality improvement science Health economics/cost analysis Use of community-based participatory research approaches/principles
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Guiding principles for collaboration with external partners
- Overarching guidelines
- Statistical analysis and publication
- Research grants and collaborative projects
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Opportunities for collaboration
- Bring ideas or questions you are interested in to us!
- Consider funding or co-funding one of the existing
pending or in process studies, or suggesting ancillary/related studies
- Funds to support students, early career
researchers/trainees, visiting fellows or professorships
- Funds to support dissemination work (e.g.
conference travel; presentations to AAFP chapters)
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Model of collaboration
- Identification of broad topic, research questions,
goals, priorities
- Vetting process and criteria
- Proposal development & pre-award activities
- Project implementation & post-award activities
- Analysis, interpretation, dissemination of results
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Thank you!
- We look forward to talking about research
- pportunities with you
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