TY - JOUR
T1 - Primary Care Research
T2 - Looking Back and Moving Forward With Reflections on NAPCRG’s First 50 Years
AU - Phillips, William R.
AU - Gebauer, Sarah
AU - Kueper, Jacqueline K.
AU - Martinez-Guijosa, Arturo
AU - Felzien, Maret
AU - Hartman, Tim C.Olde
AU - Westfall, John M.
AU - Devoe, Jennifer E.
AU - Stewart, Moira
AU - Herbert, Carol P.
AU - Green, Larry A.
AU - Brown, Judith Belle
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2023, Annals of Family Medicine, Inc. All rights reserved.
PY - 2023/9/1
Y1 - 2023/9/1
N2 - NAPCRG celebrated 50 years of leadership and service at its 2022 meeting. A varied team of primary care investigators, clinicians, learners, patients, and community members reflected on the organization’s past, present, and future. Started in 1972 by a small group of general practice researchers in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom, NAPCRG has evolved into an international, interprofessional, interdisciplinary, and intergen-erational group devoted to improving health and health care through primary care research. NAPCRG provides a nurturing home to researchers and teams working in partnership with individuals, families, and communities. The organization builds upon enduring values to cre-ate partnerships, advance research methods, and nurture a community of contributors. NAP-CRG has made foundational contributions, including identifying the need for primary care research to inform primary care practice, practice-based research networks, qualitative and mixed-methods research, community-based participatory research, patient safety, practice transformation, and partnerships with patients and communities. Landmark documents have helped define classification systems for primary care, responsible research with communities, the central role of primary care in health care systems, opportunities to revitalize generalist practice, and shared strategies to build the future of family medicine. The future of health and health care depends upon strengthening primary care and primary care research with stronger support, infrastructure, training, and workforce. New technologies offer opportunities to advance research, enhance care, and improve outcomes. Stronger partnerships can empower primary care research with patients and communities and increase commitments to diversity and quality care for all. NAPCRG offers a home for all partners in this work.
AB - NAPCRG celebrated 50 years of leadership and service at its 2022 meeting. A varied team of primary care investigators, clinicians, learners, patients, and community members reflected on the organization’s past, present, and future. Started in 1972 by a small group of general practice researchers in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom, NAPCRG has evolved into an international, interprofessional, interdisciplinary, and intergen-erational group devoted to improving health and health care through primary care research. NAPCRG provides a nurturing home to researchers and teams working in partnership with individuals, families, and communities. The organization builds upon enduring values to cre-ate partnerships, advance research methods, and nurture a community of contributors. NAP-CRG has made foundational contributions, including identifying the need for primary care research to inform primary care practice, practice-based research networks, qualitative and mixed-methods research, community-based participatory research, patient safety, practice transformation, and partnerships with patients and communities. Landmark documents have helped define classification systems for primary care, responsible research with communities, the central role of primary care in health care systems, opportunities to revitalize generalist practice, and shared strategies to build the future of family medicine. The future of health and health care depends upon strengthening primary care and primary care research with stronger support, infrastructure, training, and workforce. New technologies offer opportunities to advance research, enhance care, and improve outcomes. Stronger partnerships can empower primary care research with patients and communities and increase commitments to diversity and quality care for all. NAPCRG offers a home for all partners in this work.
KW - NAPCRG
KW - community-based participatory research
KW - family practice
KW - general practice
KW - interdisciplinary research
KW - organiza-tions
KW - primary care
KW - research
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U2 - 10.1370/afm.3009
DO - 10.1370/afm.3009
M3 - Article
C2 - 37748895
AN - SCOPUS:85174641114
SN - 1544-1709
VL - 21
SP - 456
EP - 462
JO - Annals of family medicine
JF - Annals of family medicine
IS - 5
ER -