Comprehensive Medical Research Networks

Recommendation

The Advisory Council recommends that CMRNs (i.e. Clinical Research Networks, Practice-Based Research Networks, Translational Research Institutes, et cetera.) be explicitly considered as a core component in all efforts to enhance biomedical research and improve healthcare practices. As one example, Medicaid reform efforts could allocate a small fraction of the funds to support practice-based research within the context of a CRMN. Any such research should be competitively awarded and peer-reviewed.

Additional links to CMRN include:

• http://familymedicine.med.miami.edu/x38.xml
• http://www.ncrr.nih.gov/clinical_research_resources/clinical_and_translational_science_awards/index.asp
• http://www.acrn.org
• http://www.mda.org/research/081009clinical_network.html