The development and application of audit criteria for assessing knowledge exchange plans in health research grant applications

BACKGROUND: Research funders expect evidence of end user engagement and impact plans in research proposals. Drawing upon existing frameworks, we developed audit criteria to help researchers and their institutions assess the knowledge exchange plans of health research proposals. FINDINGS: Criteria cl...

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Autores principales: Ruppertsberg, Alexa I, Ward, Vicky, Ridout, Alicia, Foy, Robbie
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Short Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4227283/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25017548
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13012-014-0093-0
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description BACKGROUND: Research funders expect evidence of end user engagement and impact plans in research proposals. Drawing upon existing frameworks, we developed audit criteria to help researchers and their institutions assess the knowledge exchange plans of health research proposals. FINDINGS: Criteria clustered around five themes: problem definition; involvement of research users; public and patient engagement; dissemination and implementation; and planning, management and evaluation of knowledge exchange. We applied these to a sample of grant applications from one research institution in the United Kingdom to demonstrate feasibility. CONCLUSION: Our criteria may be useful as a tool for researcher self-assessment and for research institutions to assess the quality of knowledge exchange plans and identify areas for systematic improvement.
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spelling pubmed-42272832014-11-12 The development and application of audit criteria for assessing knowledge exchange plans in health research grant applications Ruppertsberg, Alexa I Ward, Vicky Ridout, Alicia Foy, Robbie Implement Sci Short Report BACKGROUND: Research funders expect evidence of end user engagement and impact plans in research proposals. Drawing upon existing frameworks, we developed audit criteria to help researchers and their institutions assess the knowledge exchange plans of health research proposals. FINDINGS: Criteria clustered around five themes: problem definition; involvement of research users; public and patient engagement; dissemination and implementation; and planning, management and evaluation of knowledge exchange. We applied these to a sample of grant applications from one research institution in the United Kingdom to demonstrate feasibility. CONCLUSION: Our criteria may be useful as a tool for researcher self-assessment and for research institutions to assess the quality of knowledge exchange plans and identify areas for systematic improvement. BioMed Central 2014-07-14 /pmc/articles/PMC4227283/ /pubmed/25017548 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13012-014-0093-0 Text en Copyright © 2014 Ruppertsberg et al.; licensee BioMed Central. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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