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Researcher-decision-maker partnerships in health services research: Practical challenges, guiding principles

BACKGROUND: In health services research, there is a growing view that partnerships between researchers and decision-makers (i.e., collaborative research teams) will enhance the effective translation and use of research results into policy and practice. For this reason, there is an increasing expecta...

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Autores principales: Hofmeyer, Anne, Scott, Catherine, Lagendyk, Laura
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3502567/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22928979
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6963-12-280
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description BACKGROUND: In health services research, there is a growing view that partnerships between researchers and decision-makers (i.e., collaborative research teams) will enhance the effective translation and use of research results into policy and practice. For this reason, there is an increasing expectation by health research funding agencies that health system managers, policy-makers, practitioners and clinicians will be members of funded research teams. While this view has merit to improve the uptake of research findings, the practical challenges of building and sustaining collaborative research teams with members from both inside and outside the research setting requires consideration. A small body of literature has discussed issues that may arise when conducting research in one’s own setting; however, there is a lack of clear guidance to deal with practical challenges that may arise in research teams that include team members who have links with the organization/community being studied (i.e., are “insiders”). DISCUSSION: In this article, we discuss a researcher-decision-maker partnership that investigated practice in primary care networks in Alberta. Specifically, we report on processes to guide the role clarification of insider team members where research activities may pose potential risk to participants or the team members (e.g., access to raw data). SUMMARY: These guiding principles could provide a useful discussion point for researchers and decision-makers engaged in health services research.
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spelling pubmed-35025672012-11-22 Researcher-decision-maker partnerships in health services research: Practical challenges, guiding principles Hofmeyer, Anne Scott, Catherine Lagendyk, Laura BMC Health Serv Res Correspondence BACKGROUND: In health services research, there is a growing view that partnerships between researchers and decision-makers (i.e., collaborative research teams) will enhance the effective translation and use of research results into policy and practice. For this reason, there is an increasing expectation by health research funding agencies that health system managers, policy-makers, practitioners and clinicians will be members of funded research teams. While this view has merit to improve the uptake of research findings, the practical challenges of building and sustaining collaborative research teams with members from both inside and outside the research setting requires consideration. A small body of literature has discussed issues that may arise when conducting research in one’s own setting; however, there is a lack of clear guidance to deal with practical challenges that may arise in research teams that include team members who have links with the organization/community being studied (i.e., are “insiders”). DISCUSSION: In this article, we discuss a researcher-decision-maker partnership that investigated practice in primary care networks in Alberta. Specifically, we report on processes to guide the role clarification of insider team members where research activities may pose potential risk to participants or the team members (e.g., access to raw data). SUMMARY: These guiding principles could provide a useful discussion point for researchers and decision-makers engaged in health services research. BioMed Central 2012-08-28 /pmc/articles/PMC3502567/ /pubmed/22928979 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6963-12-280 Text en Copyright ©2012 Hofmeyer 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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