Practice research networks: Promises and pitfalls

Networks that incorporate community settings and populations are essential if we want to understand how well interventions work in the community and how to ensure that they are used in community practice. The challenges in setting up such networks are deciding what type of network is best, what questions are most important to address in them, and how to ensure that they are feasible in the long run. The paper by Borkovec and colleagues offers an opportunity to discuss the promises and pitfalls of practice research networks.