Practice-based research is particularly well-suited to applying CBPR methods. As Westfall, et al, point out, “there are striking parallels between PBRN research and CBPR.”11 Furthermore, practice-based research fits well with the vision promoted by the NIH Roadmap to “develop new partnerships of research with organized patient communities, community-based health care providers […] who care for sufficiently large groups of patients interested in working with researchers to quickly develop, test and deliver new interventions.”10 Strauss stresses that community advisory boards (CABs) — one element of a CBPR approach that PBRNs can adopt — can “facilitate research by providing advice about the informed consent process and the design and implementation of research protocols.”21
