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Implementing health research through academic and clinical partnerships: a realistic evaluation of the Collaborations for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care (CLAHRC)

BACKGROUND: The English National Health Service has made a major investment in nine partnerships between higher education institutions and local health services called Collaborations for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care (CLAHRC). They have been funded to increase capacity and capabilit...

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Autores principales: Rycroft-Malone, Jo, Wilkinson, Joyce E, Burton, Christopher R, Andrews, Gavin, Ariss, Steven, Baker, Richard, Dopson, Sue, Graham, Ian, Harvey, Gill, Martin, Graham, McCormack, Brendan G, Staniszewska, Sophie, Thompson, Carl
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3168414/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21771329
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1748-5908-6-74
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author Rycroft-Malone, Jo
Wilkinson, Joyce E
Burton, Christopher R
Andrews, Gavin
Ariss, Steven
Baker, Richard
Dopson, Sue
Graham, Ian
Harvey, Gill
Martin, Graham
McCormack, Brendan G
Staniszewska, Sophie
Thompson, Carl
author_facet Rycroft-Malone, Jo
Wilkinson, Joyce E
Burton, Christopher R
Andrews, Gavin
Ariss, Steven
Baker, Richard
Dopson, Sue
Graham, Ian
Harvey, Gill
Martin, Graham
McCormack, Brendan G
Staniszewska, Sophie
Thompson, Carl
author_sort Rycroft-Malone, Jo
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description BACKGROUND: The English National Health Service has made a major investment in nine partnerships between higher education institutions and local health services called Collaborations for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care (CLAHRC). They have been funded to increase capacity and capability to produce and implement research through sustained interactions between academics and health services. CLAHRCs provide a natural 'test bed' for exploring questions about research implementation within a partnership model of delivery. This protocol describes an externally funded evaluation that focuses on implementation mechanisms and processes within three CLAHRCs. It seeks to uncover what works, for whom, how, and in what circumstances. DESIGN AND METHODS: This study is a longitudinal three-phase, multi-method realistic evaluation, which deliberately aims to explore the boundaries around knowledge use in context. The evaluation funder wishes to see it conducted for the process of learning, not for judging performance. The study is underpinned by a conceptual framework that combines the Promoting Action on Research Implementation in Health Services and Knowledge to Action frameworks to reflect the complexities of implementation. Three participating CLARHCS will provide in-depth comparative case studies of research implementation using multiple data collection methods including interviews, observation, documents, and publicly available data to test and refine hypotheses over four rounds of data collection. We will test the wider applicability of emerging findings with a wider community using an interpretative forum. DISCUSSION: The idea that collaboration between academics and services might lead to more applicable health research that is actually used in practice is theoretically and intuitively appealing; however the evidence for it is limited. Our evaluation is designed to capture the processes and impacts of collaborative approaches for implementing research, and therefore should contribute to the evidence base about an increasingly popular (e.g., Mode two, integrated knowledge transfer, interactive research), but poorly understood approach to knowledge translation. Additionally we hope to develop approaches for evaluating implementation processes and impacts particularly with respect to integrated stakeholder involvement.
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spelling pubmed-31684142011-09-08 Implementing health research through academic and clinical partnerships: a realistic evaluation of the Collaborations for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care (CLAHRC) Rycroft-Malone, Jo Wilkinson, Joyce E Burton, Christopher R Andrews, Gavin Ariss, Steven Baker, Richard Dopson, Sue Graham, Ian Harvey, Gill Martin, Graham McCormack, Brendan G Staniszewska, Sophie Thompson, Carl Implement Sci Study Protocol BACKGROUND: The English National Health Service has made a major investment in nine partnerships between higher education institutions and local health services called Collaborations for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care (CLAHRC). They have been funded to increase capacity and capability to produce and implement research through sustained interactions between academics and health services. CLAHRCs provide a natural 'test bed' for exploring questions about research implementation within a partnership model of delivery. This protocol describes an externally funded evaluation that focuses on implementation mechanisms and processes within three CLAHRCs. It seeks to uncover what works, for whom, how, and in what circumstances. DESIGN AND METHODS: This study is a longitudinal three-phase, multi-method realistic evaluation, which deliberately aims to explore the boundaries around knowledge use in context. The evaluation funder wishes to see it conducted for the process of learning, not for judging performance. The study is underpinned by a conceptual framework that combines the Promoting Action on Research Implementation in Health Services and Knowledge to Action frameworks to reflect the complexities of implementation. Three participating CLARHCS will provide in-depth comparative case studies of research implementation using multiple data collection methods including interviews, observation, documents, and publicly available data to test and refine hypotheses over four rounds of data collection. We will test the wider applicability of emerging findings with a wider community using an interpretative forum. DISCUSSION: The idea that collaboration between academics and services might lead to more applicable health research that is actually used in practice is theoretically and intuitively appealing; however the evidence for it is limited. Our evaluation is designed to capture the processes and impacts of collaborative approaches for implementing research, and therefore should contribute to the evidence base about an increasingly popular (e.g., Mode two, integrated knowledge transfer, interactive research), but poorly understood approach to knowledge translation. Additionally we hope to develop approaches for evaluating implementation processes and impacts particularly with respect to integrated stakeholder involvement. BioMed Central 2011-07-19 /pmc/articles/PMC3168414/ /pubmed/21771329 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1748-5908-6-74 Text en Copyright ©2011 Rycroft-Malone et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Rycroft-Malone, Jo
Wilkinson, Joyce E
Burton, Christopher R
Andrews, Gavin
Ariss, Steven
Baker, Richard
Dopson, Sue
Graham, Ian
Harvey, Gill
Martin, Graham
McCormack, Brendan G
Staniszewska, Sophie
Thompson, Carl
Implementing health research through academic and clinical partnerships: a realistic evaluation of the Collaborations for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care (CLAHRC)
title Implementing health research through academic and clinical partnerships: a realistic evaluation of the Collaborations for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care (CLAHRC)
title_full Implementing health research through academic and clinical partnerships: a realistic evaluation of the Collaborations for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care (CLAHRC)
title_fullStr Implementing health research through academic and clinical partnerships: a realistic evaluation of the Collaborations for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care (CLAHRC)
title_full_unstemmed Implementing health research through academic and clinical partnerships: a realistic evaluation of the Collaborations for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care (CLAHRC)
title_short Implementing health research through academic and clinical partnerships: a realistic evaluation of the Collaborations for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care (CLAHRC)
title_sort implementing health research through academic and clinical partnerships: a realistic evaluation of the collaborations for leadership in applied health research and care (clahrc)
topic Study Protocol
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3168414/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21771329
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1748-5908-6-74
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