Establishing family physician research networks in South Africa

South African Family Practice

 
 
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Title Establishing family physician research networks in South Africa
 
Creator Mash, Robert
 
Subject Family medicine primary care research; family physicians; research networks; clinical practice research
Description Practice-based research networks have been an important strategy in many parts of the world to enable primary care research and involve clinicians. The Stellenbosch University Family Physician Research Network (SUFPREN) was established in 2017 to enable family physicians in clinical practice to engage with practical research that addressed key challenges and enhanced clinical governance. It is a collaboration between academic family physicians at the university and clinical family physicians in the district health services. In this article, the establishment of SUFPREN is described – membership of the network, selection of research questions, roles in the research process, communication and coordination, involvement of the Department of Health, types of questions and methods, data management, dissemination of findings and funding. The initial work of SUFPREN is described and a vision for future family physician research networks in South Africa is defined.
 
Publisher AOSIS
 
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Date 2020-11-05
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion — —
Format text/html application/epub+zip text/xml application/pdf
Identifier 10.4102/safp.v62i1.5216
 
Source South African Family Practice; Vol 62, No 1 (2020): Part 4; 4 pages 2078-6204 2078-6190
 
Language eng
 
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Coverage South Africa — —
Rights Copyright (c) 2020 Robert Mash https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
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