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Family Practice Vol. 17, No. 1, 1-4
© Oxford University Press 2000

Editorial

Primary care research: ends and means

Roger Jones

Wolfson Professor of General Practice, Guy's, King's and St Thomas' School of Medicine, 5 Lambeth Walk, London SE11 6SP, UK.

Received 19 May 1998; Accepted 7 October 1998.

Introduction

In the UK, research in primary care has become a priority for support within the National Health Service (NHS) and other funding agencies, such as the Medical Research Council (MRC). This has resulted in the creation of a range of interventions aimed at contributing to research activity, capacity and utilization in primary care. It is now timely to reflect on the appropriateness and effectiveness of these interventions and to consider, for the future, what are the desired outcomes (ends) of primary care research and how we can best achieve them (means).

Primary care

Primary care consists of a sector of the health service which provides first-contact care for patients. Typically, primary care has a number of dimensions, including those of personal care, continuity or longitudinality and comprehensiveness.1 In general practice, this is reflected by the Stott and Davies'2 model of the consultation, in which as well as dealing with the presenting complaint, . . . [Full Text of this Article]

The ends of primary care research

Research in primary care

Dimensions of primary care research

Getting research into practice

Research: ends and means

Primary care interventions

Future developments

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