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height: 27px; text-align: left; border-right-width: thin; border-right-color: darkgray; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times New Roman;" valign="top"> </td> <td style="border-top-width: thin; border-left-width: thin; border-left-color: darkgray; border-bottom-width: thin; border-bottom-color: darkgray; width: 550px; border-top-color: darkgray; height: 27px; text-align: left; border-right-width: thin; border-right-color: darkgray; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times New Roman;" valign="top"> <span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: #0000cc; font-family: Verdana"> <strong><span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Wingdings 2">P</span></strong>Established in 1994. One of the most experienced and successful primary care practice-based research networks in the world. Includes family physicians, general internists, pediatricians, obstetricians, nurse practitioners, and physicians assistants from communities throughout Oklahoma. <br /> <br /> <strong><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: #ff0000; font-family: Wingdings 2">P</span></strong>Working relationships established through boards, committees, and contracts with the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, the Oklahoma State University College of Osteopathic Medicine, the Oklahoma State Department of Health, the Oklahoma Foundation for Medical Quality, the Oklahoma Health Care Authority, the Oklahoma State Medical Association, and the Oklahoma Academy of Family Physicians. <br /> <br /> <strong><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: #ff0000; font-family: Wingdings 2">P</span></strong>More than $15 million in external research funding has been attracted from 20 different funding sources. <br /> <br /> <strong><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: #ff0000; font-family: Wingdings 2">P</span></strong>Over 70 research projects completed and 85 papers published in peer-reviewed journals since 1994. <br /> <br /> </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: #0000cc; font-family: Verdana"><strong><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: #ff0000; font-family: Wingdings 2">P</span></strong>Largest published series of brown recluse spider bites in the medical literature. <br /> <strong><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: #ff0000; font-family: Wingdings 2">P</span></strong>Largest published study of night sweats in the medical literature. <br /> <br /> <strong><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: #ff0000; font-family: Wingdings 2">P</span></strong>More than 100 presentations of research findings and PBRN methods at national and international conferences. <br /> <br /> <strong><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: #ff0000; font-family: Wingdings 2">P</span></strong>Introduction of practice facilitators to U.S. practice-based research networks (PBRNs). <br /> <br /> <strong><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: #ff0000; font-family: Wingdings 2">P</span></strong>Introduction of the best practices research method to PBRNs. <br /> <br /> <strong><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: #ff0000; font-family: Wingdings 2">P</span></strong>More than 4500 hours of time contributed by full-time primary care clinicians to improving primary health care services for Oklahomans. This represents a half million dollars of clinician  in-kind contributions to this effort. <br /> <br /> <strong><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: #ff0000; font-family: Wingdings 2">P</span></strong>More than 15,000 hours of quality improvement support provided to Oklahoma clinicians. <br /> <br /> <strong><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: #ff0000; font-family: Wingdings 2">P</span></strong>One of the first PBRNs to become an independent (501-c3) non-profit organization. <br /> <br /> <strong><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: #ff0000; font-family: Wingdings 2">P</span></strong>Continuous representation on the Steering Committee of the Federation of Practice-Based Research Networks. Member, International Federation of Practice-Based Research Networks. <br /> <br /> <strong><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: #ff0000; font-family: Wingdings 2">P</span></strong>One of 29 clinical practice networks and one of 4 primary care PBRNs included in the NIH IECRN Best Practice study conducted in 2006 by the Westat Corporation.<br /> </span> <br /> </span> <tr style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times New Roman"> <td colspan="3" style="border-top-width: thin; background-position: center center; border-left-width: thin; border-left-color: darkgray; border-bottom-width: thin; border-bottom-color: darkgray; border-top-color: yellow; background-repeat: repeat; height: 13px; background-color: transparent; text-align: center; border-right-width: thin; border-right-color: darkgray" valign="bottom"> </td> </tr> <tr style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times New Roman"> <td colspan="3" rowspan="1" style="background-position: center center; border-top: yellow thin groove; border-left-width: thin; border-left-color: darkgray; background-image: url(OKPRNlogo_bkgr.jpg); border-bottom-width: thin; border-bottom-color: darkgray; background-repeat: repeat; height: 30px; background-color: transparent; text-align: center; border-right-width: thin; border-right-color: darkgray" valign="bottom"> <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: #696969; font-family: Tahoma; border-top-style: groove; border-top-color: #ffff00;">(c) 2011 OKPRN Health IT Solutions. 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