Acknowledgments
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The following networks and individuals made essential contributions to Prescription for Health:

**Prescription for Health Practice-Based Research Networks – Round 1:** Alabama Practice Based Research Network (APBRN), Birmingham, Ala; Ambulatory Care Outcomes Research Network (ACORN), Richmond, Va; Clinicians Enhancing Child Health (CECH), Lebanon, NH; Colorado Research Network (CaReNet), Aurora, Colo; Dartmouth COOP Project (COOP), Hanover, NH; Great Lakes Research into Practice Network (GRIN), East Lansing, Mich; Kentucky Ambulatory Network (KAN), Lexington, Ky; Midwest Nursing Center Consortium Research Network (MNCCRN), Milwaukee, Wisc; Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians Research Network (MAFPRN), Minneapolis, Minn; New England Clinicians Forum (NECF), Hartford, Conn; Northwest Ohio Primary Care Research Network (NOPCRN), Toledo, Ohio; Pediatric Pittsburgh Network (PitNet), Pittsburgh, Pa; Pediatric Practice Research Group (PPRG), Chicago, Ill; Pennsylvania State Ambulatory Research Network (PSARN), Hershey, Pa; Research Association of Practices (RAP), Cleveland, Ohio; Virginia Practice Support and Research Network (VaPSRN), Charlottesville, Va; UCSF/Stanford Collaborative Research Network (CRN), San Francisco, Calif.

**The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation:** Sue Hassmiller, PhD, RN, FAAN, Senior Program Officer; Laura Leviton, PhD, Senior Program Officer; Tracy Orleans, PhD, Senior Program Officer; Paul Tarini, MA, Senior Communications Officer; Fran Ferrara, Grants Administrator.

**Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ):** David Lanier, MD, Program Officer; Steve Bernstein, Project Officer.

**Analysis Team:** Ben F. Crabtree, PhD, Principal Investigator; Deborah Cohen, PhD, Co-investigator; Alfred F. Tallia, MD, MPH, Co-investigator; Denise Young, MD, NRSA Fellow; Tom Rundall, PhD, Co-investigator, Quantitative Analysis; Dorothy Hung, MPH, Doctoral Student Researcher; Michelle Gibel, MA, Research Assistant.

**AHRQ PBRN Resource Center:** William M. Tierney, MD, Co-Director; Daniel Gaylin, MPA, Co-Director; Brenda Hudson, MA, Operations Director; Caitlin Oppenheimer, MPH, Senior Research Scientist; Atif Zafar, MD, Director of IT; John Hickner, MD, MSc, Senior Research Consultant; Amy Finn, BA, Research Assistant; Jennifer Benz, BA, Research Assistant; Jane Anne French, BA, Research Assistant.

**The National Advisory Committee:** Kurt C. Stange, MD, PhD, Chair, Professor of Family Medicine, Epidemiology & Biostatistics, Oncology, and Sociology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio; Janet D. Allan, PhD, RN, Dean and Professor, University of Maryland, School of Nursing, Baltimore, Md; Regina M. Benjamin, MD, MBA, Founder and CEO, Bayou La Batre Rural Health Clinic, Bayou La Batre, Ala; Helen Burstin, MD, MPH, Director, Center for Primary Care Research, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), Rockville, Md; Lawrence W. Green, DrPH, Visiting Professor, School of Public Health, University of California at Berkeley, San Francisco, Calif; Robert J. Haggerty, MD, Professor and Chair Emeritus, Department of Pediatrics, University of Rochester School of Medicine, Rochester, NY; Donald C. Iverson, PhD, Dean and Professor, University of Wollongong, Health and Behavioural Sciences, Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia; Carlos R. Jaén, MD, PhD, John M. Smith Professor and Chairman, Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Texas Health Sciences Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Tex; Carla S. King, PhD, RN, President and CEO, Carla King and Associates, Inc, Adjunct Professor, School of Nursing, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Lafayette, Colo; Judith K. Ockene, PhD, MEd, MA, Barbara Helen Smith Endowed Chair in Preventive and Behavioral Medicine, Professor of Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Mass; John H. Wasson, MD, Herman O. West Professor of Geriatrics, Department of Community and Family Medicine, and Department of Medicine, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, NH.

**Prescription for Health National Program Office:** Larry A. Green, MD, Director; Maribel Cifuentes, RN, BSN, Deputy Director; Douglas H. Fernald, MA, Research Associate; Linda Niebauer, Network Associate; N. Michelle Shiver, BSE, Program Manager.

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