Queensland Emergency Medicine Research Foundation: special report.
Development of any new profession is dependent on the development of a special body of knowledge that is the domain of the profession. Key to this is research. Following sustained lobbying, the Queensland Government agreed to establish an emergency medicine research fund as part of an Enterprise Bargaining Agreement in 2006. That fund is managed by the Queensland Emergency Medicine Research Foundation. The present article describes the strategic approaches of the Foundation in its first 3 years, the application of research funds, and foreshadows an evaluative framework for determining the strategic value of this investment. The Foundation has developed a range of personnel and project support funding programmes, and competition for funding has increased. Ongoing evaluation will seek to determine the effectiveness of the current funding strategy on improving the effectiveness of research performance. It will also evaluate the clinical and organizational outcomes.
School of Public Health, Queensland University of Technology, Queensland, Australia. gj.fitzgerald@qut.edu.au
Gerry
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FitzGerald
Catrina
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Codd
Peter
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Aitken
Michael
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Sinnott
D004635:Emergency Medicine / Q000191:economics; D005380:Financing, Government / Q000458:organization & administration; D005582:Foundations / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D011793:Queensland; D012106:Research / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration*