Practice-based innovations: More relevant and transportable than NIH-funded studies.
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.
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.
Rebecca S
RS
Etz
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).
Karissa A
KA
Hahn
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).
Martha M
MM
Gonzalez
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).
Benjamin F
BF
Crabtree
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).
Kurt C
KC
Stange
D009316:National Institutes of Health (U.S.); D009936:Organizational Innovation; D011320:Primary Health Care; D057170:Translational Research, Biomedical; D014481:United States
Health Policy; Practice-based Research; Primary Health Care; Program Sustainability; Translational Medical Science