TY - JOUR
T1 - A Practice-Based Research Network (PBRN) roadmap for evaluating COVID-19 in community health centers
T2 - A report from the OCHIN PBRN
AU - DeVoe, Jennifer E.
AU - Likumahuwa-Ackman, Sonja M.
AU - Angier, Heather E.
AU - Huguet, Nathalie
AU - Cohen, Deborah J.
AU - Flocke, Susan A.
AU - Marino, Miguel
AU - Gold, Rachel
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 American Board of Family Medicine. All rights reserved.
PY - 2020/10
Y1 - 2020/10
N2 - Background: Primary care practice-based research networks (PBRNs) are critical laboratories for generating evidence from real-world settings, including studying natural experiments. Primary care’s response to the novel coronavirus-19 (COVID-19) pandemic is arguably the most impactful natural experiment in our lifetime. Evaluating the Impact of COVID-19: We briefly describe the OCHIN PBRN of community health centers (CHCs), its partnership with implementation scientists, and how we are leveraging this infrastructure and expertise to create a rapid research response evaluating how CHCs across the country responded to the COVID-19 pandemic. COVID-19 Research Roadmap: Our research agenda focuses on asking: How has care delivery in CHCs changed due to COVID-19? What impact has COVID-19 had on the delivery of preventive services in CHCs? Which PBRN services (e.g., data surveillance, training, evidence synthesis) are most impactful to real-world practices? What decision-making strategies were used in the PBRN and its practices to make real-time changes in response to the pandemic? What critical factors in successfully and sustainably transforming primary care are illuminated by pandemic-driven changes? Discussion and Conclusions: PBRNs enable real-world evaluation of practice change and natural experiments, and thus are ideal laboratories for implementation science research. We present a real-time example of how a PBRN Implementation Laboratory activated a response to study a historic natural experiment, to help other PBRNs charting a course through this pandemic.
AB - Background: Primary care practice-based research networks (PBRNs) are critical laboratories for generating evidence from real-world settings, including studying natural experiments. Primary care’s response to the novel coronavirus-19 (COVID-19) pandemic is arguably the most impactful natural experiment in our lifetime. Evaluating the Impact of COVID-19: We briefly describe the OCHIN PBRN of community health centers (CHCs), its partnership with implementation scientists, and how we are leveraging this infrastructure and expertise to create a rapid research response evaluating how CHCs across the country responded to the COVID-19 pandemic. COVID-19 Research Roadmap: Our research agenda focuses on asking: How has care delivery in CHCs changed due to COVID-19? What impact has COVID-19 had on the delivery of preventive services in CHCs? Which PBRN services (e.g., data surveillance, training, evidence synthesis) are most impactful to real-world practices? What decision-making strategies were used in the PBRN and its practices to make real-time changes in response to the pandemic? What critical factors in successfully and sustainably transforming primary care are illuminated by pandemic-driven changes? Discussion and Conclusions: PBRNs enable real-world evaluation of practice change and natural experiments, and thus are ideal laboratories for implementation science research. We present a real-time example of how a PBRN Implementation Laboratory activated a response to study a historic natural experiment, to help other PBRNs charting a course through this pandemic.
KW - COVID-19
KW - Community Health Centers
KW - Coronavirus
KW - Decision Making
KW - Delivery of Health Care
KW - Evidence-Based Medicine
KW - Evidence-Based Practice
KW - Implementation Science
KW - Information Dissemination
KW - Organizational Innovation
KW - Pandemics
KW - Practice-Based Research
KW - Primary Health Care
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U2 - 10.3122/JABFM.2020.05.200053
DO - 10.3122/JABFM.2020.05.200053
M3 - Article
C2 - 32989072
AN - SCOPUS:85092122625
SN - 1557-2625
VL - 33
SP - 774
EP - 778
JO - Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine
JF - Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine
IS - 5
ER -