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
  10. Unveiling the Mechanisms of Effect, A Workshop on Causal Mediation Analysis: A half-day pre-conference Workshop at the NAPCRG Annual Meeting on Nov 20, 2024. Led by Pamela Fernainy.
  11. What is a theme anyway? Introducing different approaches to creating qualitative themes. 90-minute workshop during the NAPCRG Annual Meeting on Nov 21, 2024. Led by Patricia Thille, Martina Kelly, and Richard Young.

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:

Measuring continuity in primary care: how it is done and why it matters
Derek Hersch, Kristen Klemenhagen, Patricia Adam
Family Practice, Volume 41, Issue 1, February 2024, Pages 60–64, https://doi.org/10.1093/fampra/cmad122
Published: 31 December 2023

 

Understanding and communicating epidemiological measures of risk and benefit 
Caroline de Moel-Mandel
Family Practice, Volume 40, Issue 2, April 2023, Pages 423–425, https://doi.org/10.1093/fampra/cmac117
Published: 18 October 2022

 

An introduction to machine learning for classification and prediction 
Jason E Black, Jacqueline K Kueper, Tyler S Williamson
Family Practice, Volume 40, Issue 1, February 2023, Pages 200–204, https://doi.org/10.1093/fampra/cmac104
Published: 01 October 2022

 

Leveraging confidence intervals to inform the clinical significance of interventions 
Pamela Fernainy, Nadia Sourial
Family Practice, Volume 39, Issue 6, December 2022, Pages 1196–1198, https://doi.org/10.1093/fampra/cmac065
Published: 18 June 2022

 

Diary-interview studies: longitudinal, flexible qualitative research design 
Patricia Thille, Louise Chartrand, Cara Brown
Family Practice, Volume 39, Issue 5, October 2022, Pages 996–999, https://doi.org/10.1093/fampra/cmac039
Published: 26 April 2022

 

Spatial perspectives in family health research 
Emil N Coman, Sandro Steinbach, Guofeng Cao
Family Practice, Volume 39, Issue 3, June 2022, Pages 556–562, https://doi.org/10.1093/fampra/cmab165
Published: 15 December 2021

 

Immersion–Crystallization: a valuable analytic tool for healthcare research 
Jeffrey M Borkan
Family Practice, Volume 39, Issue 4, August 2022, Pages 785–789, https://doi.org/10.1093/fampra/cmab158
Published: 25 November 2021

 

Implementation science: an introduction for primary care
Pallavi Prathivadi, Philippa Buckingham, Samantha Chakraborty, Lesley Hawes, Sajal K Saha, Christopher Barton, Danielle Mazza, Grant Russell, Elizabeth Sturgiss
Family Practice, Volume 39, Issue 1, February 2022, Pages 219–221, https://doi.org/10.1093/fampra/cmab125
Published: 25 October 2021

 

Photovoice in primary care settings: a flexible tool for fostering patient-centred care and social action
Abigail J Rolbiecki, Joseph W LeMaster
Family Practice, Volume 38, Issue 6, December 2021, Pages 855-858, https://doi.org/10.1093/fampra/cmab061
Published: 15 July 2021

 

Survey strategies to increase participant response rates in primary care research studies
Quiera S Booker, Jessica D Austin, Bijal A Balasubramanian
Family Practice, Volume 38, Issue 5, October 2021, Pages 699–702, https://doi.org/10.1093/fampra/cmab070
Published: 02 July 2021

 

More than words: methods to elicit talk in interviews
Patricia H Thille, Leahora Rotteau, Fiona Webster
Family Practice, Volume 38, Issue 4, August 2021, Pages 545–547, https://doi.org/10.1093/fampra/cmab043
Published: 05 June 2021

 

The problem of imbalance in cluster randomized trials and the benefits of covariate constrained randomization
L Miriam Dickinson, Patrick Hosokawa, Jeanette A Waxmonsky, Bethany M Kwan
Family Practice, Volume 38, Issue 3, June 2021, Pages 368–371, https://doi.org/10.1093/fampra/cmab007
Published: 03 March 2021

 

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 199–202, https://doi.org/10.1093/fampra/cmaa134
Published: 22 January 2021

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

Recognizing misclassification bias in research and medical practice
Anh Pham, Michael Cummings, Cliff Lindeman, Neil Drummond, Tyler Williamson
Family Practice, Volume 36, Issue 6, December 2019, Pages 804–807, https://doi.org/10.1093/fampra/cmy130
Published: 18 November 2019

 

Recall bias and reduction measures: an example in primary health care service utilization
Satya Rashi Khare, Isabelle Vedel
Family Practice, Volume 36, Issue 5, October 2019, Pages 672–676, https://doi.org/10.1093/fampra/cmz042
Published: 08 October 2019

 

Conducting ethnography in primary care
F Webster, K Rice
Family Practice, Volume 36, Issue 4, August 2019, Pages 523–525, https://doi.org/10.1093/fampra/cmz007
Published: 31 July 2019

 

Why and how to use mixed methods in primary health care research
Isabelle Vedel, Navdeep Kaur, Quan Nha Hong, Reem El Sherif, Vladimir Khanassov, Claire Godard-Sebillotte, Nadia Sourial, Xin Qiang Yang, Pierre Pluye
Family Practice, Volume 36, Issue 3, June 2019, Pages 365–368, https://doi.org/10.1093/fampra/cmy127
Published: 23 May 2019

 

Difference-in-differences analysis and the propensity score to estimate the impact of non-randomized primary care interventions
Claire Godard-Sebillotte, Sathya Karunananthan, Isabelle Vedel
Family Practice, Volume 36, Issue 2, April 2019, Pages 247–251, https://doi.org/10.1093/fampra/cmz003
Published: 13 February 2019

 

Deliberative stakeholder consultations: creating insights into effective practice-change in family medicine
Gillian Bartlett, Cristina Longo, Svetlana Puzhko, Justin Gagnon, Vasiliki Rahimzadeh
Family Practice, Volume 35, Issue 6, December 2018, Pages 749–752, https://doi.org/10.1093/fampra/cmy056
Published: 12 December 2018

 

Daring to draw causal claims from non-randomized studies of primary care interventions
Nadia Sourial, Cristina Longo, Isabelle Vedel, Tibor Schuster
Family Practice, Volume 35, Issue 5, October 2018, Pages 639–643, https://doi.org/10.1093/fampra/cmy005
Published: 18 April 2018

 

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