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Stephenie C. Lemon, PhD, Jane G. Zapka, ScD, Barbara Estabrook, MSPH and Evan Benjamin, MD

Stephenie C. Lemon, Jane G. Zapka, and Barbara Estabrook are with the Division of Preventive and Behavioral Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Mass. Evan Benjamin is with the Department of Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Mass, and the Division of Healthcare Quality, Baystate Health System, Springfield, Mass.

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to Stephenie Lemon, PhD, Division of Preventive and Behavioral Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA 01655 (e-mail: stephenie.lemon{at}umassmed.edu).

Community health centers (CHCs) are important settings for research aimed at reducing health disparities. However, CHCs pose many challenges to research at patient, provider, and system levels.

We summarized lessons learned from a multimethod, formative study to develop intervention strategies for improving colorectal cancer screening in CHCs, and make recommendations for future research. The call for research in "real world" settings such as CHCs must be matched with greater understanding of the challenges, as well as the resources to meet those challenges.

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