Research Methods (RM) Work Group

This Work Group was developed to focus on methodological and analytic issues, both qualitative and quantitative, that are key for family medicine and primary care research. This Work Group is dedicated to contributing to achieving the following goals and activities:

  • To advocate for excellence and state-of-the-art methods in family medicine and primary care research
  • To identify and explore new issues in research methodology, including novel study designs and qualitative and quantitative methods that may be relevant in family medicine and primary care research.
  • To create a repository for information about research methods in primary care to be available to NAPCRG members.

The CASFM Research Methods Working Group has a relationship with Family Practice (Oxford) to publish the CASFM Research Methods briefs. Only CASFM members are approved for authorship of these methods briefs. If interested in contributing, please contact coman@uchc.edu further information.

Leadership
U.S. Co-chair: Ping-Hsin Chen, PhD
Canadian Co-chair: Patty Thille, PhD, BSc(PT)

 

Products

  1. Model for Evaluating Practice Transformation: Methods Applicable to the Emerging Science of Primary Care Systems Redesign. A Workshop at the NAPCRG Annual Meeting November, 2012. Presenters: Jeffery Alexander, Gillian Bartlett, Miriam Dickinson. 
  2. Research Methods to Evaluate Primary Care Practice Change. A Workshop at the NAPCRG Annual Meeting November, 2013. Presenters: Miriam Dickinson, Gillian Bartlett, Doug Fernald.
  3. Advanced Methods for Primary Care Research: The Stepped Wedge Design. A Workshop at the NAPCRG Annual Meeting November 22, 2014. Presenters: Miriam Dickinson, Gillian Bartlett, Diana Dawes, Bethany Kwan, Christopher Meaney, and Pierre Pluye.
  4. Pre-conference Workshop for Methods for Primary Care Research. A full day Workshop at the NAPCRG Annual Meeting October 24, 2015. Presenters: Gillian Bartlett, PhD; Christopher Morley, PhD; Cristina Longo, MSc; Justin Gagnon, MA, BSC; Isabelle Vedel, MD, PhD; Jamie DeMore; Christopher Meaney, MSc; Tibor Schuster; L. Miriam Dickinson, PhD
  5. Discourse Analysis and Interpretive Research for Enhanced Patient-Centered Care (WS47). A Workshop at the NAPCRG Annual Meeting, October 27, 2015. Presenters:  Charo Rodriguez; Emmanuelle Belanger; Nathalie Dinh; Richard Hovey; Gillian Bartlett; L. Miriam Dickinson; Douglas Fernald; Christopher Morley
  6. Advanced Workshop on Ethnography (WS49).  A Workshop at the NAPCRG Annual Meeting, October 28, 2015. Presenters: Fiona Webster; Kathleen Rice; L. Miriam Dickinson; NAPCRG CASFM Working Group.

  7. CASFM 2016 Methods Pre-Conference: Advancing Primary Care Research (PR1). Presented on Saturday, November 12, 2016 by Tyler Williamson, PhD; Christopher P. Morley, PhD; Gillian Bartlett, PhD; Chester H. Fox, MD; Lee A. Green, MD, MPH; Joseph W LeMaster, MD, MPH; Maeve O'Beirne, MD, PhD; Jon Salsberg, PhD; Hazel Tapp, PhD.

  8. Introduction to Qualitative Methods for Primary Care Research (PR3). A half-day Pre-conference Workshop at the NAPCRG Annual Meeting November 16, 2019. Presenters: Alison Hamilton, PhD, and Jodi Summers Holtrop, PhD
  9. Using Rapid Turn-Around Methods to Conduct High-Quality Qualitative Primary Care Research (PR5). A half-day Pre-conference Workshop at the NAPCRG Annual Meeting November 16, 2019. Presenters: Alison Hamilton, PhD, and Jodi Summers Holtrop, PhD

Family Practice (Oxford)

The CASFM Research Methods Working Group has a relationship with Family Practice (Oxford) to publish the CASFM Research Methods briefs. Only CASFM members are approved for authorship of these methods briefs. If interested in contributing, please contact Jodi.Holtrop@cuanschutz.edu for further information.

The CASFM Research Methods Briefs published in the journal Family Practice:

Missing data in primary care research: importance, implications and approaches 
Miguel Marino, Jennifer Lucas, Emile Latour, John D Heintzman
Family Practice, Volume 38, Issue 2, April 2021, Pages 200–203, https://doi.org/10.1093/fampra/cmaa134
Published: 22 January 2021

 

An introduction to clustered data and multilevel analyses 
Jessalyn K Holodinsky, Peter C Austin, Tyler S Williamson
Family Practice, Volume 37, Issue 5, October 2020, Pages 719–722, https://doi.org/10.1093/fampra/cmaa017
Published: 27 February 2020

 

The use of online discussion forums and communities for health research 
Eric K Shaw
Family Practice, Volume 37, Issue 4, 1 August 2020, Pages 574–577, https://doi.org/10.1093/fampra/cmaa008
Published: 12 February 2020

 

Pragmatic research: an introduction for clinical practitioners 
Jodi Summers Holtrop, Russell E Glasgow
Family Practice, Volume 37, Issue 3, June 2020, Pages 424–428, https://doi.org/10.1093/fampra/cmz092
Published: 23 July 2020

 

Promoting interdisciplinary research through transversality—an aid to communicating more effectively with health sociologists 
Elizabeth A Sturgiss, Gavin J D Smith
Family Practice, Volume 37, Issue 2, April 2020, Pages 283–285, https://doi.org/10.1093/fampra/cmz095
Published: 18 January 2020

 

Using critical realism in primary care research: an overview of methods 
Elizabeth A Sturgiss, Alexander M Clark
Family Practice, Volume 37, Issue 1, February 2020, Pages 143–145, https://doi.org/10.1093/fampra/cmz084
Published: 16 December 2019

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