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Family Practice Advance Access originally published online on August 17, 2005
Family Practice 2005 22(5):471-473; doi:10.1093/fampra/cmi084
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Editorial

Unquoted, unchallenged, general practice research will be casting pearls before swine

Chris van Weela and Walter W Rosserb

a St Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands and b Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada

Correspondence to Chris van Weel, Department of General Practice, St Radboud University Medical Centre, 229-HAG, PO BOX 9101, 6500 HB Nijmegen, The Netherlands; Email: C.vanweel@hag.umcn.nl

Received 20 July 2005; Accepted 29 July 2005.

van Weel C and Rosser WW. Unquoted, unchallenged, general practice research will be casting pearls before swine. Family Practice 2005; 22: 471–473.

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Research is the major driving factor in further improving health care and should be directed at the clinical decisions that have the greatest impact on the health status of the population. Most people receive formal medical care in general practice,1,2 and GPs are in many countries the only physicians directly accessible to the public.3 Primary care is where research will contribute most to improve medical care for all. But the profile of primary care research is surprisingly low. Against this background the World Organization of Family Doctors (Wonca) has developed a policy to improve the status of general practice research, expand the evidence-base for GPs, and contribute to better health care worldwide—named after the place of the policy-initiating conference ‘the Kingston report’.4 Priorities in building primary care research capacity are:

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Unquoted, unchallenged – or just not found?
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