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Furler, J, Cleland, J, Del Mar, C, Hanratty, B, Kadam, U, Lasserson, D, McCowan, C, Magin, P, Mitchell, C, Qureshi, N, Rait, G, Steel, N, van Driel, M and Ward, A (2008) Leaders, leadership and future primary care clinical research. BMC Family Practice, 9. 52 - ?. ISSN 1471-2296
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Abstract
Background: A strong and self confident primary care workforce can deliver the highest quality care and outcomes equitably and cost effectively. To meet the increasing demands being made of it, primary care needs its own thriving research culture and knowledge base.
Methods: Review of recent developments supporting primary care clinical research.
Results: Primary care research has benefited from a small group of passionate leaders and significant investment in recent decades in some countries. Emerging from this has been innovation in research design and focus, although less is known of the effect on research output.
Conclusion: Primary care research is now well placed to lead a broad re-vitalisation of academic medicine, answering questions of relevance to practitioners, patients, communities and Government. Key areas for future primary care research leaders to focus on include exposing undergraduates early to primary care research, integrating this early exposure with doctoral and postdoctoral research career support, further expanding cross disciplinary approaches, and developing useful measures of output for future primary care research investment.
Item Type: | Article |
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Additional Information: | This is the final published version of the article (version of record). It first appeared online via BioMed Central at http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2296-9-52 - please refer to any applicable terms of use of the publisher. |
Uncontrolled Keywords: | primary care |
Subjects: | R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine |
Divisions: | Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Primary Care Health Sciences |
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Depositing User: | Symplectic |
Date Deposited: | 26 Nov 2014 14:34 |
Last Modified: | 17 Dec 2018 15:54 |
URI: | https://eprints.keele.ac.uk/id/eprint/106 |