To enhance the quality and efficiency of observational research in daily clinical practice, linkage of different databases is often desirable to gain more insight in the underlying mechanisms by which medicines are utilised in large populations.
However, there are several questions regarding how to best integrate quitline-practice linkages and the impact of these programs on provider practice patterns and patient outcomes.
The partnerships and networks that NEXUS developed over time with other organisations and individuals - including NEXUS trainee alumni - created valuable channels for research collaborations and dissemination, as well as crucial research-policy and research-practice linkages.
This will also provide quality evidence about identification of developmental risk and access to services to be embedded in existing practice with linkages to policy development.
The 'designated research team' (DRT) approach was evaluated using indicators derived from a framework of six principles for research capacity building (RCB) which include: building skills and confidence, relevance to practice, dissemination, linkages and collaborations, sustainability and infrastructure development.
Theoretical studies on how segregation distortion can bias estimates of recombination date back to Bailey (1949) and Allard and Alder (1960) but yield few generalizations regarding the practice of linkage mapping, particularly now, when dense linkage maps are enabled by high-throughput DNA sequencing.
Given the complexity of best practice data linkage processes discussed with participants, an explanation of data linkage processes was given with the aid of a diagram outlining the key processes.
While privacy protection remained an important consideration for most participants, adequate protection measures adopted in best practice data linkage were viewed by most as protection enough for data linkage to proceed without specific individual consent.
In practice, such linkage could spell the end of peacemaking for the foreseeable future.
In practice, the linkage is loose: that makes difficulties for patient access to services.
Most teamwork occurred within practices, with linkages to external services and providers being less common and quite limited in scope.
