PRIMARY CARE RESEARCH IN CANADA AND THE UNITED STATES.

The article focuses on the similarity of the initiatives of primary care research in Canada and the U.S. One element common to both countries is the establishment of practice-based research networks, which recognize that primary care practices are the natural laboratories for primary care research and typically comprise a number of community-based practices that are linked with academic institutions. Therefore, high-quality research can develop within a collaborative framework that includes academic and community based researchers.