The Arkansas Research Collaborative (ARC)

描述(由申请人提供)：这一第一类申请的目的是发展阿肯色州研究合作(ARC)，旨在成为阿肯色州第一个全州范围的家庭医学实践研究网络(PBRN)，也是唯一覆盖该州大量农村人口的PBRN。阿肯色州在许多健康问题上一直位居最差的10个州之列，并将从这一努力中受益匪浅。ARC是一种新兴的PBRN。请拨资金帮助支付基础设施发展、研究人员和顾问以及信息管理系统开发的费用。该计划是开发一个PBRN，能够开展以办公室为基础的干预措施，提高护理质量，并能够在全州范围内传播研究结果。其目的是ARC将进行协作、跨学科、甚至跨学科的办公室研究。这笔赠款申请的资金将用于发展ARC的研究能力。 在两年的发展阶段，ARC的规模将受到限制，但会随着时间的推移而增加。最初，ARC将包括七个家庭实践驻留地点(一个在阿肯色大学医学科学中心，六个在地区健康教育中心)和一个由17名家庭从业人员和两个办公室地点组成的大型城市家庭实践小组。因此，ARC将从至少60名执业医生和近150名家庭实习医生开始，为不同种族和社会经济背景的患者群体提供服务。(成员名单见附录A。)在接下来的几年里，将从全州的家庭实践办公室中提取更多的研究站点。ARC的中心行政机构位于阿肯色州小石城的阿肯色大学医学科学系(UAMS)家庭和社区医学系(DFCM)。DFCM位于UAMS学术健康科学园区，为这一努力做出了重大贡献。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The purpose of this category-I request is to develop the Arkansas Research Collaborative (ARC), designed to be the first statewide family medicine practice-based research network (PBRN) in Arkansas, and the only PBRN to reach the large rural population of the state. Arkansas consistently ranks among the worst 10 states for a number of health problems and stands to benefit tremendously from this effort. ARC is an emerging PBRN. Funding is requested to help pay for infrastructure development, research staff and consultants, and information management system development. The plan is to develop a PBRN able to carry out office-based interventions that will improve the quality of care and also be able to disseminate the findings statewide. The intent is that ARC will conduct collaborative interdisciplinary and even transdisciplinary office-based research. Funding requested in this grant will be used to develop the research capacity of ARC. The size of ARC will be limited during the two-year developmental phase but will increase over time. Initially, ARC will include seven family practice residency sites (one at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences and six at Area Health Education Centers) and a large urban family practice group with 17 family practitioners and two office sites. Therefore, ARC will start with at least 60 practicing physicians and almost 150 family practice residents, serving an ethnically and socioeconomically diverse group of patients. (See appendix A for listing of members.) Over the following years, additional research sites will be drawn from family practice offices throughout the state. The central administrative home for ARC is in the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Department of Family and Community Medicine (DFCM) in Little Rock, Arkansas. The DFCM is located on the UAMS academic health sciences campus and is contributing significantly to this effort.