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Collaborative research networks in health: a pragmatic scoping study for the development of an imaging network
BACKGROUND: Collaborative research networks are often touted as a solution for enhancing the translation of knowledge, but questions remain about how to evaluate their impact on health service delivery. This pragmatic scoping study explored the enabling factors for developing and supporting a collab...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4674989/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26652643 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12961-015-0067-y |
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author | Robinson, Tracy Elizabeth Rankin, Nicole Janssen, Anna Mcgregor, Deborah Grieve, Stuart Shaw, Timothy |
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description | BACKGROUND: Collaborative research networks are often touted as a solution for enhancing the translation of knowledge, but questions remain about how to evaluate their impact on health service delivery. This pragmatic scoping study explored the enabling factors for developing and supporting a collaborative imaging network in a metropolitan university in Australia. METHODS: An advisory group was established to provide governance and to identify key informants and participants. Focus group discussions (n = 2) and semi-structured interviews (n = 22) were facilitated with representatives from a broad range of disciplines. In addition, a survey, a review of relevant websites (n = 15) and a broad review of the literature were undertaken to elicit information on collaborative research networks and perceived needs and factors that would support their involvement in a multi-disciplinary collaborative research network. Findings were de-identified and broad themes were identified. RESULTS: Participants identified human factors as having priority for developing and sustaining a collaborative research network. In particular, leadership, a shared vision and a communication plan that includes social media were identified as crucial for sustaining an imaging network in health research. It is important to develop metrics that map relationships between network members and the role that communication tools can contribute to this process. CONCLUSIONS: This study confirms that human factors remain significant across a range of collaborative endeavours. The use of focus group discussions, interviews, and literature and website reviews means we can now strongly recommend the primacy of human factors. More work is needed to identify how the network operates and what specific indicators or metrics help build the capacity of clinicians and scientists to participate in translational research. |
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spelling | pubmed-46749892015-12-11 Collaborative research networks in health: a pragmatic scoping study for the development of an imaging network Robinson, Tracy Elizabeth Rankin, Nicole Janssen, Anna Mcgregor, Deborah Grieve, Stuart Shaw, Timothy Health Res Policy Syst Research BACKGROUND: Collaborative research networks are often touted as a solution for enhancing the translation of knowledge, but questions remain about how to evaluate their impact on health service delivery. This pragmatic scoping study explored the enabling factors for developing and supporting a collaborative imaging network in a metropolitan university in Australia. METHODS: An advisory group was established to provide governance and to identify key informants and participants. Focus group discussions (n = 2) and semi-structured interviews (n = 22) were facilitated with representatives from a broad range of disciplines. In addition, a survey, a review of relevant websites (n = 15) and a broad review of the literature were undertaken to elicit information on collaborative research networks and perceived needs and factors that would support their involvement in a multi-disciplinary collaborative research network. Findings were de-identified and broad themes were identified. RESULTS: Participants identified human factors as having priority for developing and sustaining a collaborative research network. In particular, leadership, a shared vision and a communication plan that includes social media were identified as crucial for sustaining an imaging network in health research. It is important to develop metrics that map relationships between network members and the role that communication tools can contribute to this process. CONCLUSIONS: This study confirms that human factors remain significant across a range of collaborative endeavours. The use of focus group discussions, interviews, and literature and website reviews means we can now strongly recommend the primacy of human factors. More work is needed to identify how the network operates and what specific indicators or metrics help build the capacity of clinicians and scientists to participate in translational research. BioMed Central 2015-12-09 /pmc/articles/PMC4674989/ /pubmed/26652643 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12961-015-0067-y Text en © Robinson et al. 2015 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. 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. |
spellingShingle | Research Robinson, Tracy Elizabeth Rankin, Nicole Janssen, Anna Mcgregor, Deborah Grieve, Stuart Shaw, Timothy Collaborative research networks in health: a pragmatic scoping study for the development of an imaging network |
title | Collaborative research networks in health: a pragmatic scoping study for the development of an imaging network |
title_full | Collaborative research networks in health: a pragmatic scoping study for the development of an imaging network |
title_fullStr | Collaborative research networks in health: a pragmatic scoping study for the development of an imaging network |
title_full_unstemmed | Collaborative research networks in health: a pragmatic scoping study for the development of an imaging network |
title_short | Collaborative research networks in health: a pragmatic scoping study for the development of an imaging network |
title_sort | collaborative research networks in health: a pragmatic scoping study for the development of an imaging network |
topic | Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4674989/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26652643 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12961-015-0067-y |
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