Journal:Academic-industry partnership advancing cannabis science: The Complementary Care Practice-Based Research Network

Full article title	Academic-industry partnership advancing cannabis science: The Complementary Care Practice-Based Research Network
Journal	Complementary Therapies in Medicine
Author(s)	Ennis, Nicole; Vance, Cameron; Bradbury, Russell
Author affiliation(s)	Florida State University, Medical Marijuana Treatment Clinics of Florida
Primary contact	Email: nennis at fsu dot edu
Year published	2022
Volume and issue	66
Article #	102821
DOI	10.1016/j.ctim.2022.102821
ISSN	1873-6963
Distribution license	Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Website	https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0965229922000231
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Abstract

Objectives: Data collected during routine care holds the potential to support hypothesis generation, study feasibility, and provide insight regarding how to address problems under real world conditions. Currently there are no practice-based research networks in Florida that focus on complementary care in general or medical marijuana specifically. Through an academic-industry partnership, we sought to develop a practice-based research network focused on cannabis science and create a de-identified database for analyses that support hypothesis generation, study feasibility estimation, and a network that also facilitates recruitment into future research studies.

Design: The Complementary Care Practice-Based Research Network (CC-PBRN) is a centralized repository, which contains electronic health records (EHRs) from a private medical cannabis health system in the state of Florida.

Results: This paper provides cross-sectional descriptive analyses of the CC-PBRN’s 43,802 currently active patients. There are 24 clinics in the network, with nine in North Florida, 11 in Central Florida, and four in South Florida.

Conclusion: This network serves as a statewide resource for patient-reported outcomes (PRO) research in medical marijuana. The network currently has numerous outpatient practices with thousands of patients that are a potential source of research participants for both observational studies as well as traditional clinical trials. The outpatient clinical practices can also serve as units of analysis for pragmatic trials comparing different care protocols and organizational structure.

Keywords: complementary care, Cannabis science, practice-based research network

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