ReviewAnnals of family medicine2004
Why research in family medicine? A superfluous question.
Review in Annals of family medicine, 2004. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 25 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
What it found
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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
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Who cites it
25 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Health outcomes in primary care: a 20-year evidence map of randomized controlled trials.Family practice · 2023Pooled it
- The European primary care monitor: structure, process and outcome indicators.BMC family practice · 2010Pooled it
- The breadth of primary care: a systematic literature review of its core dimensions.BMC health services research · 2010Pooled it
- Impact of Financial Incentives and Department Size on Scholarly Activity Output.Annals of family medicine · 2025Article
- Key Motivators and Framework for Integrated Care by Family Physician Team Members in Urban China.International journal of health policy and management · 2025Article
- Family medicine journals' endorsement of reporting guidelines and clinical trial registration: a cross-sectional analysis.BJGP open · 2024Article
- Strategies for research capacity building by family physicians in primary healthcare: a scoping review protocol.BMJ open · 2024Article
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- Awareness of parental illness: a grounded theory of upholding family equilibrium in parents on long-term sick-leave in primary health care.Scandinavian journal of primary health care · 2021Article
- TREND database: Retinal images of healthy young subjects visualized by a portable digital non-mydriatic fundus camera.PloS one · 2021Article
- 3D printing technology and internet of things prototyping in family practice: building pulse oximeters during COVID-19 pandemic.3D printing in medicine · 2020Article
- Challenges in the implementation of primary health care reforms: a qualitative analysis of stakeholders' views in Turkey.BMJ open · 2019Article
- Why and how to use mixed methods in primary health care research.Family practice · 2019Article
- Attitudes and barriers towards conducting research amongst primary care physicians in Bahrain: a cross-sectional study.BMC family practice · 2019Article
- General practitioners' willingness to participate in research: A survey in central Switzerland.PloS one · 2019Article
- Metabolic syndrome in hypertensive women in the age of menopause: a case study on data from general practice electronic health records.BMC medical informatics and decision making · 2018Article
- No common understanding of profession terms utilized in health services research : An add-on qualitative study in the context of the QUALICOPC project in Austria.Wiener klinische Wochenschrift · 2017Article
- Quality of primary health care in Poland from the perspective of the physicians providing it.BMC family practice · 2016Article
- The Paediatric Admission Quality of Care (PAQC) score: designing a tool to measure the quality of early inpatient paediatric care in a low-income setting.Tropical medicine & international health : TM & IH · 2016Article
- Comparison of research trends in korean and international family medicine in journals of family medicine.Korean journal of family medicine · 2014Article
Corrections and comments
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Authors and funding
2 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
The ultimate answer to the question, "Why research in family medicine?" is to provide better care for our patients. Through research we want to improve quality of primary care by improving our understanding and practice of it. This research will inevitably be specific for family medicine as family medicine is a specific discipline. In this article we first explore what makes family medicine a specific discipline. In a second part we present a framework to grasp the various research questions that must be answered to achieve the complex and multifaceted goal of improving quality of care. Family medicine is a specific discipline for 3 reasons: it has a unique epidemiology, the context of care is important, and it has a strong link and responsibility to the community. Quality of care is a complex and multidimensional concept that raises diverse research questions. We propose to map these questions within a framework defined by the 3 dimensions of the Donabedian triangle--structure, process, and outcome-and within each of these dimensions by 5 foci-basic knowledge, diagnostic and therapeutic problem solving, practice implementation, policy context, and education. This framework may help to make the various research questions operational and to point out the gaps in our research. The questions and answers should be relevant to daily practice and comprise all domains of family medicine so that eventually most of our daily actions in practice will be underpinned with medical, contextual, and policy evidence and contribute to the improvement of the quality of care.
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