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PCORnet is a large, highly representative, national patient-centered clinical research network.

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How it All Works
Questions for PCORnet start at the Front Door. The Front Door is a central gateway point for anyone seeking to use PCORnet's infrastructure and collaborate on patient-centered research. Once users have reached out, the PCORnet Coordinating Center sets up a consultation to clarify the request and convert the question into a query to send out to the Network Partners for the best fit.

General PCORnet Process

1. Front Door: If you want to tap PCORnet to answer a research question, you will submit your question to PCORnet via the Front Door. Front Door is the entry way into PCORnet's Coordinating Center, a network of partners who collaborate to lead PCORnet's operations and data activities and maintain its infrastructure.

2. The Coordinating Center: Begin working with the requestor to make sure they know specifically what information is sought. Then they convert the question to a queryPhrase, a query with an underlying executable code and sends it to securely to PCORnet network partners.

3. PCORnet Network Partners: Runs the query against their database and send result back to the Coordinating center.

4. Accessing PCORnet Data: The researcher gets results back via Front Door. The entire process is performed locally at PCORnet partner networks– the data never moves and remains secure in PCORnet Coordinating Center.

University of Utah-GPC Frontdoor PCORnet Protocol

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