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- Page navigation anchor for CRISP Statement provides important guidelines for Primary Care researchCRISP Statement provides important guidelines for Primary Care research
The authors who carried out the mutl-step rigourous work to develop the CRISP statement on consensus reporting for primary care research have done a great service for the research community. Previous guidelines failed to provide sufficient information on context and methods to allow primary care practitioners to determine if the findings applied to their practice settings. The CRISP Checklist is built upon a five-year program of rigorous research that engaged the international interprofessional community. CRISP included as experts both the creators and users of primary care research, including researchers, clinical practitioners, patients, communities, editors, reviewers, educators, policymakers, and funders. One especially important element is recommendation 3(b) which calls for explicit description of how patients and communities were engaged in the research process. The checklist is a practical guide for planning primary care research and judging research proposals as well as for preparing manuscripts.
Competing Interests: None declared. - Page navigation anchor for RE: CRISP provides opportunity to frame our research in a primary care context.RE: CRISP provides opportunity to frame our research in a primary care context.
Having watched the CRISP study team develop and pilot the idea of a standard reporting system for primary care research, I was excited to see this paper published. Getting researchers around the globe to consider reporting on their primary care research in a common manner can help with dissemination, comparative research, and bi-directional learning. We all have a lot to learn from our primary care colleagues around the world. When I saw the checklist included 24 items, I was initially taken aback. How much extra work might this be. However, the items are mostly ideas and requirements for most research grants, abstracts, and publications. The novel part is that CRISP standardizes these typical research descriptions in the context of primary care research; research done in, by, and for primary care patients and practices. CRISP is not just another onerous task for researchers. CRISP provides the opportunity to use some common language and constructs to assure primary care research is accessible and meaningful to primary care practices and our patients. I look forward to using CRISP and maybe even the CRISP checklist in my next manuscript submission.
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