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Family Practice 2006 23(2):149-150; doi:10.1093/fampra/cmi126
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Published by Oxford University Press.

Editorial

Practice-based primary care research—translating research into practice through advanced technology

Kevin Peterson

Family Medicine and Community Health, University of Minnesota, MN, USA; Email: peter223@umn.edu

Peterson K. Practice-based primary care research—translating research into practice through advanced technology. Family Practice 2006; 23: 149–150.

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In order for scientific discoveries to improve human health, they must be moved from the laboratory bench and be incorporated into practical applications in the community.1 This ‘translation’ of research into practice is a two-way street. Not only do basic scientists deliver to clinicians new tools to examine patients, but also clinical researchers make novel observations about the nature and progression of disease that can stimulate basic scientific investigations in the laboratory. It is the appropriate role of the clinical investigator to help span this chasm from bench to bedside and from bedside to . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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