Current Research Abstracts

Infrastructure for Translational Research in a Practice Based Research Network
| Barry H (Nease D - sub w/UofM), UofM/NIH, 10/01/2003 to 09/30/2005, $26,828.
| Barry H (CHM commitment for 7% salary effort L. White), CHM Supplemental Funding, 10/1/2003 to 09/30/2005, $7,105.00.

This project will conduct two detailed on-site structural and functional assessments of practices belonging to the Great Lakes Research Into Practice Network in Michigan (GRIN). Assessments will be made of practice infrastructure and clinician and staff attitudes relevant for implementation of translational network trials. Specifically, we will assess these factors in relationship to partial or full implementation of a computerized reminder system (CRS). At the completion of the project, each practice will receive a specific action plan, tailored to their practice, describing the steps necessary to participate in translational network trials using a CRS.

MDCH supplement to “Testing a Consultation of Support in GRIN Practices”
| Summers Holtrop J, MDCH, 10/01/2003 to 09/30/2004, $19,606.

Additional funds from the Michigan Department of Community Health to accomplish the Robert Wood Johnson funded grant, which required in-kind and supplemental funding beyond the $125,000 award from RWJF.

Great Lakes Research into Practice Network (GRIN). (AHCRQ). Henry Barry, MD, MS (PI).

Agency for HealthCare Research & Quality Begins: 2000/10/01 Ends: 2001/09/30

Henry Barry, M.D., M.S., MSU Department of Family Practice, will be principal investigator for a one-year project funded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Public Health Service Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. The $99,404 start-up grant will assist the three primary care research networks in Michigan--the Michigan Research Network (MIRNET), the Primary Care Research Network (PCRNet), and the Upper Peninsula Research Network (UPRNet)--to merge into one comprehensive network called the Great Lakes Research into Practice Network (GRIN). This merger is intended to enhance the networks' research potential, to encourage collaboration, and to improve the integration of research findings into the practice of primary care medicine in Michigan. In addition, new practices will be added throughout Michigan, particularly in Detroit among primary care practices affiliated with Wayne State University serving minorities and underserved populations.

The new network will be a program of the Michigan Family Practice Consortium, which is one of three family medicine research centers funded by a five-year grant from the American Academy of Family Physicians. The major institutional sponsors are the University of Michigan Department of Family Medicine and the Michigan State University Department of Family Practice, College of Human Medicine. Wayne State University Medical School Department of Family Medicine and the Michigan Academy of Family Physicians are major collaborators.

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