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- Title
"Not a Kidney or a Lung:" Research Challenges in a Network of Safety Net Clinics.
- Authors
Heintzman, John; Likumahuwa, Sonja; Nelson, Christine; Eiff, M. Patrice; Gold, Rachel; Carroll, Joseph E.; Muench, John; Hill, Christian; Mital, Meena; DeVoe, Jennifer E.
- Abstract
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: To gain a better understand-ing of the facilitators and barriers to creating a practice-based research network (PBRN) of safety net clinics, we conducted a qualitative study within our network of safety net health centers. METHODS: Utilizing snowball sampling, we conducted interviews with 19 of our founding stakeholders and analyzed these inter-views to draw out common themes. RESULTS: The results showed four barriers to research in our net-work: lack of research generated from clinician questions, lack of appropriate funding, lack of clinician time, and lack of infrastruc-ture. We discuss these results and suggest that inadequate funding for practice-based research, particularly in the health care safety net, is a unifying theme of these four barriers CONCLUSIONS: Our results suggest that the national funding strategy for research relevant to underserved populations and all of primary care must undergo a fundamental shift. We discuss the features of possible models to meet this need.
- Publication
Family Medicine, 2014, Vol 46, Issue 2, p105
- ISSN
0742-3225
- Publication type
Article