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Family Practice Advance Access published online on November 1, 2009
Family Practice, doi:10.1093/fampra/cmp078
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Implementing family practice research in countries with limited resources: a stepwise model experienced in Crete, Greece

Christos Lionis, Emmanouil K Symvoulakis and Constantine I Vardavas

Clinic of Social and Family Medicine, Department of Social Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Crete, Heraklion 71003, Greece

Correspondence to Christos Lionis, Clinic of Social and Family Medicine, Department of Social Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Crete, Heraklion 71003, PO Box 2208, Greece; E-mail: lionis{at}galinos.med.uoc.gr

Received 7 November 2008; Revised 6 August 2009; Accepted 2 October 2009.


  Abstract

The need for a cost-effective decision-making process is increasingly seen as a challenge within modern family practice. The role of family practice research is well recognized in countries with readily available resources and capacity. However, the situation is different in a number of countries with limited financial resources and current low research capacity. This article reports on an empirical model of 10 steps developed and applied in Crete, Greece. It aims to exchange views on how to better design and undertake actions in order to develop future family practice research in countries with limited resources.

Keywords. Capacity, family practice, research, resources.

Lionis C, Symvoulakis EK and Vardavas CI. Implementing family practice research in countries with limited resources: a stepwise model experienced in Crete, Greece. Family Practice 2009; Pages 1–7 of 7.


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