Practice and research: seeking common ground to benefit people.

Department of Primary and Community Care, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Nijmegen, the Netherlands, Department of FamilyMedicine, University ofWisconsin School ofMedicine and Public Health, Madison,WI, USA and Department of Family Medicine and Primary Health Care, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium. *Correspondence to Chris van Weel, Department of Primary and Community Care, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, 117-hag, PO Box 9101, 6500 HB Nijmegen, The Netherlands; E-mail: [email protected] Received 26 April 2011; Revised 18 July 2011; Accepted 23 July 2011.