The Arkansas Research Collaborative (ARC)

描述（由申请人提供）：本i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基于家庭医学实践的研究网络（PBRN），也是唯一一个覆盖该州大量农村人口的PBRN。在一系列健康问题上，阿肯色州一直排在最糟糕的10个州之列，并将从这一努力中受益匪浅。ARC是一个新兴的PBRN。所要求的资金用于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发展的费用。计划是建立一个能够开展以办公室为基础的干预措施的PBRN，以提高护理质量，并能够在全州范围内传播研究结果。ARC的目的是开展跨学科合作，甚至是跨学科的办公室研究。本基金申请的资金将用于发展ARC的研究能力。

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.