What is the CCRN?

The Collaborative Care Research Network (CCRN), a sub-network of the AAFP’s National Research Network (NRN), was created so that clinicians from across the country can ask questions and investigate how to make collaborative care work more effectively.

The mission of the CCRN is to develop and implement a national, practice based research agenda to evaluate the effectiveness of collaboration between behavioral health, psychology and substance abuse intervention and primary medical care. With the emergence of the medical home, it is clear that such services are to be a prominent dimension of responding to patient and families’ health needs. However, there is an equally crucial need to evaluate the effectiveness of such collaborative care in ways that are both useful to primary care practitioners, and answer the important questions that have and will be raised.

The CCRN’s objectives are to support, conduct, and disseminate practice-based primary care effectiveness research that examines the clinical, financial, and operational impact of behavioral health on primary care and health outcomes.