Patients Receiving Integrative Medicine Effectiveness Registry (PRIMIER) of the BraveNet practice-based research network: study protocol
2015
Background
Integrative medicine (IM) provides patient-centered care and addresses the full range of physical, emotional, mental, social, spiritual, and environmental influences that affect a person’s health. IM is a “whole systems” approach that employs multiple modalities as opposed to an isolated complementary therapy. Thus, studying outcomes of IM is more challenging than evaluating an isolated intervention. Practice-based research networks (PBRNs) allow for clinicians/investigators at multiple diverse sites using common methodology to pool their data, increase participant sample size and increase generalizability of results. To conduct real-world, practice-based research, the Bravewell Collaborative founded BraveNet in 2007 as the first national integrative medicine PBRN.
Keywords:
- Alternative medicine
- Modalities
- Medicine
- Patient Activation
- Observational study
- Practice-based research network
- Integrative medicine
- Cohort study
- Complementary therapy
- Generalizability theory
- Patient Activation Measure
- Family medicine
- Gerontology
- Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System
- Physical therapy
- Psychological intervention
- Diagnosis code
- Population
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