Call for Papers: Clinical Research

BACKGROUND

Since its inception, the Annals of Family Medicine has sought research on clinical topics: new knowledge that fills a gap in our understanding of how health and illness are gained and lost, how patients present and progress in primary care, and how diagnosis and treatment of patients in primary care can be improved.

CALL FOR PAPERS

To help stimulate new knowledge relevant to primary care practice, the Annals is issuing a call for manuscripts on clinical topics. Findings should directly help primary care clinicians better care for the patients they see. Articles with the potential to change how clinicians practice medicine are particularly welcome. Accepted manuscripts will be included in a clinical research theme in the July/August 2010 issue of the Annals.

Topics should relate to care of patients in the primary care setting. Specific topics may include (but are not limited to) natural history, pathophysiology, and advances in treatment and prevention of illnesses/medical conditions; ways in which health can be promoted or regained, or illness problems effectively addressed; and clinical trials conducted in primary care settings. Manuscripts should specifically state how the findings might apply to or change practice.