What are PURLs?

The PURLS system was developed in a collaborative partnership of the Family Physicians Inquiries Network (FPIN) and The Journal of Family Practice.

Priority Updates from the Research Literature Surveillance system. We have developed a knowledge translation system called PURLS that exclusively targets newly published research expected to actually change family medicine and primary care practice. The PURLS system was developed in a collaborative partnership of the Family Physicians Inquiries Network (FPIN) and The Journal of Family Practice as an objective of the University of Chicago Institute for Translational Medicine, funded through a Clinical Translational Science Award from the National Institutes of Health.

How does the system work?
Many steps and many people are involved is selecting and producing a PURL. The methodology includes surveillance of primary and secondary literature; critical appraisal of the potential PURLs identified; review of the related literature; and a vigorous peer review, clinical review, and editorial review process.

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