Two Dozen Curated Articles to Shape Primary Care Policy and Practice

Welcome to PCC’s primary care research hub. This hub is a product of PCC’s Bridging the Gap in Primary Care Research project, which is designed to curate a small number of recent, seminal primary care articles and communicate them broadly. Our goal is to inform and shape the thinking of practice and policy leaders with respect to primary care clinical and health services research.  

PCC has assembled this set of 24 primary care health services research (HSR) and primary care patient-centered outcomes research/comparative effectiveness research (clinical) articles through the work of a Research Dissemination Workgroup (RDWG) and our research partner, the North American Primary Care Research Group (NAPCRG). The PCC selected 12 clinical and 12 health services research articles for the final list.

The 24 articles can be filtered based on the Shared Principles of Primary Care, which characterize advanced primary care, and by article type. You can click on the Shared Principle icons next to each article to read more about each principle. Click on the title of the article to go to the full abstract and a link to the original publication. Some of the articles require an academic credential or paid subscription to the journal in which they were published. You can search for free, full-text versions of the articles using pubmed. 

In addition to this central research hub page, selected articles will receive additional dissemination treatment through our quarterly Lunch and Learn discussions and other dissemination documents. You can access previous Lunch and Learn discussions and view the additional dissemination materials on the About the Project page. 

The overall project is funded by a Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute Eugene Washington PCORI Engagement Award (19760-PCPCC).