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A small body of literature has discussed issues that may arise when conducting research in one’s own setting; however, there is a lack of clear guidance to deal with practical challenges that may arise in research teams that include team members who have links with the organization/community being studied (i.e., are “insiders”).</jats:p>\n          </jats:sec>\n          <jats:sec>\n            <jats:title>Discussion</jats:title>\n            <jats:p>In this article, we discuss a researcher-decision-maker partnership that investigated practice in primary care networks in Alberta. Specifically, we report on processes to guide the role clarification of insider team members where research activities may pose potential risk to participants or the team members (e.g., access to raw data).</jats:p>\n          </jats:sec>\n          <jats:sec>\n            <jats:title>Summary</jats:title>\n            <jats:p>These guiding principles could provide a useful discussion point for researchers and decision-makers engaged in health services research.</jats:p>\n          </jats:sec>","journal":"BMC Health Services Research","year":2012,"id":614222,"datarank":0.6090664515819629,"base_score":4.060443010546419,"endowment":4.060443010546419,"self_citation_contribution":0.6090664515819629,"citation_network_contribution":0.0,"self_endowment_contribution":0.6090664515819629,"citer_contribution":0.0,"corpus_percentile":null,"corpus_rank":null,"citation_count":57,"citer_count":0,"citers_with_citation_signal":0,"citers_with_endowment":0,"datacite_reuse_total":6,"is_dataset":false,"is_dataset_confidence":null,"is_data_producer":false,"deposit_databanks":null,"is_oa":false,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":null,"fair_score":null,"fair_percentile":null,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[{"id":380658,"name":"Catherine Scott","orcid":"0000-0002-5363-6665","position":1,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1582713,"name":"Laura Lagendyk","orcid":null,"position":2,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1582712,"name":"Anne Hofmeyer","orcid":null,"position":0,"is_corresponding":false}],"reference_count":0,"raw_metadata":{"has_enrichment":true,"resolved":true,"title":"Researcher-decision-maker partnerships in health services research: Practical challenges, guiding principles","abstract":"<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title>\n          <jats:sec>\n            <jats:title>Background</jats:title>\n            <jats:p>In health services research, there is a growing view that partnerships between researchers and decision-makers (i.e., collaborative research teams) will enhance the effective translation and use of research results into policy and practice. 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