Attitudes of primary healthcare chief physicians towards research in Finland - a national study.

Objective: To illustrate the views of chief physicians in Finnish primary healthcare health centres (HCs) on the existing research capacity of their centres, their attitudes to practice-based research network activity, and research topics of interest to them.

Design: A cross-sectional survey study.

Setting: Finnish HCs.

A Review of 50 Years of International Literature on the External Environment of Building Practice-Based Research Networks (PBRNs).

Background: This article is the second part of a novel scoping review of the international literature that presents those key elements that underpin the foundational activities of Practice-Based Research Networks (PBRNs). In this article, we examine the external environment and the intersection between the internal and external environment domains.

Methods: We searched electronic databases, including MEDLINE (PubMed), OVID, CINAHL (EBSCOhost), Scopus, and SAGE for publications in English between 1/1/1965 and 9/15/2021.

A Review of 50-Years of International Literature on the Internal Environment of Building Practice-Based Research Networks (PBRNs).

Purpose: Practice-based research networks (PBRNs) have developed dynamically across the world, paralleling the emergence of the primary care discipline. While this review focuses on the internal environment of PBRNs, the complete framework will be presented incrementally in future publications.

Methods: We conducted a scoping review of the published and gray literature.