Practice-based innovations: More relevant and transportable than NIH-funded studies

Rebecca S Etz; Karissa A Hahn; Martha M Gonzalez; Benjamin F Crabtree; Kurt C Stange

doi:10.3122/jabfm.2014.06.140053

Practice-based innovations: More relevant and transportable than NIH-funded studies

J Am Board Fam Med. 2014 Nov-Dec;27(6):738-9. doi: 10.3122/jabfm.2014.06.140053.

Authors

Rebecca S Etz¹, Karissa A Hahn², Martha M Gonzalez², Benjamin F Crabtree², Kurt C Stange²

Affiliations

¹ From the Department of Family Medicine and Population Health, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond (RSE, MG); the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, Rutgers University Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, NJ (KAH, BFC); and the Departments of Family and Community Health, Epidemiology and Biostatistics, and Sociology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (KCS). Rsetz@vcu.edu.
² From the Department of Family Medicine and Population Health, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond (RSE, MG); the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, Rutgers University Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, NJ (KAH, BFC); and the Departments of Family and Community Health, Epidemiology and Biostatistics, and Sociology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (KCS).

PMID: 25381069
DOI: 10.3122/jabfm.2014.06.140053

Abstract

In 2003, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) created a translational science funding stream to foster widespread, practice-based dissemination of scientific evidence. A decade later, our study of a national cohort of innovative practices suggests that effective dissemination continues to be prevented by the limited biomedical focus of funded research, conventional research strategies, and failure to report contextual factors.

Keywords: Health Policy; Practice-based Research; Primary Health Care; Program Sustainability; Translational Medical Science.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

National Institutes of Health (U.S.)
Organizational Innovation
Primary Health Care*
Translational Research, Biomedical*
United States