The ADVANCE Clinical Research Network (CRN) is led by OCHIN in partnership with Fenway Health, Health Choice Network (HCN), and Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU). The goal of ADVANCE is to build and maintain a “community laboratory” of Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) serving safety net patients, including the uninsured, the under-insured, undocumented immigrants, and other vulnerable populations.
Strengthen the infrastructure of our community academic partnerships to support patient-centered outcomes research (PCOR), and support FQHCs to become learning health systems
Expand efforts to engage patients and clinicians who contribute to the design, implementation, and interpretation of comparative effectiveness research
Develop electronic systems for recruiting study participants and collecting patient-reported data
Integrate outpatient, hospital, and community-level data into a single data management system
Build the capacity of our FQHC networks to meet research regulatory requirements
It is anticipated that ADVANCE will result in greatly expanded capacity to conduct comparative effectiveness research in the safety net population, and allow for collaboration with diverse partners on such efforts. It will also yield the nation’s largest database on safety net patient care and outcomes. Research conducted in this dataset has the potential to address myriad questions about improving care quality and outcomes among our nation’s most vulnerable patients.
The purpose of these guidelines is to document a shared understanding and approach for disseminating research findings from ADVANCE projects. The following principles guide ADVANCE in our research dissemination efforts:
