Project ECHO Integrated Within the Oregon Rural Practice-based Research Network (ORPRN)

Chronic opioid therapy and preventive services in rural primary care: an Oregon rural practice-based research network study.

PURPOSE For clinicians, using opioid therapy for chronic noncancer pain (CNCP) often gives rise to a conflict between treating their patients' pain and fears of addiction, diversion of medication, or legal action. Consequent stresses on clinical encounters might adversely affect some elements of clinical care. We evaluated a possible association between chronic opioid therapy (COT) for CNCP and...

Rural Oregon community perspectives: introducing community-based participatory research into a community health coalition.

The Community Health Improvement Partnership (CHIP) model has supported community health development in more than 100 communities nationally. In 2011, four rural Oregon CHIPs collaborated with investigators from the Oregon Rural Practice-based Research Network (ORPRN), a component of the Oregon Clinical and Translational Research Institute (OCTRI), to obtain training on research methods, develo...

The parallel rural community curriculum: an integrated clinical curriculum based in rural general practice.

INTRODUCTION In an attempt to address the rural medical workforce maldistribution and the concurrent inappropriate caseload at the urban tertiary teaching hospitals, Flinders University and the Riverland Division of General Practice decided to pilot, in 1997, an entire year of undergraduate clinical curriculum in Australian rural general practice. This program is called the Parallel Rural Commu...

Scottish Dental Practice Based Research Network

Background: The General Dental Services (GDS) contract of 1990 formalised the provision of emergency, out-of-hours treatment for NHS patients. If contacted outside normal surgery hours by a registered patient the GDP is required to offer advice and reassurance by telephone or to reopen the surgery. If seen out of hours, the GDP is paid a recalled dental attendance fee for re-opening the surgery...

Development of a National Mega Research Project on the Integrated Watershed Management for Iran