title: Evaluating various areas of process improvement in an effort to improve clinical research: discussions from the 2012 Clinical Translational Science Award (CTSA) Clinical Research Management workshop.
abstract: Emphasis has been placed on assessing the efficiency of clinical and translational research as part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) goal to "improve human health." Improvements identified and implemented by individual organizations cannot address the research infrastructure needs of all clinical and translational research conducted. NIH's National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) has brought together 61 Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) sites creating a virtual national laboratory that reflects the diversity and breadth of academic medical centers to collectively improve clinical and translational science. The annual Clinical Research Management workshop is organized by the CTSA consortium with participation from CTSA awardees, NIH, and others with an interest in clinical research management. The primary objective of the workshop is to disseminate information that improves clinical research management although the specific objectives of each workshop evolve within the consortium. The fifth annual workshop entitled "Learning by doing; applying evidence-based tools to re-engineer clinical research management" took place in June 2012. The primary objective of the 2012 workshop was to utilize data to evaluate, modify, and improve clinical research management. This report provides a brief summary of the workshop proceedings and the major themes discussed among the participants.
authors.affiliation: University of Cincinnati, Center for Clinical and Translational Science and Training, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. Jane.strasser@uc.edu
authors.forename: Jane E
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Strasser
authors.forename: Philip A
authors.initials: PA
authors.lastname: Cola
authors.forename: Daniel
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Rosenblum
mesh_terms: D001363:Awards and Prizes; D032982:Contracts / Q000191:economics; D003365:Costs and Cost Analysis; D004493:Education; D028744:Ethics Committees, Research; D015276:Health Care Rationing; D006295:Health Resources / Q000191:economics; D006801:Humans; D018579:Patient Selection; D015397:Program Evaluation; D057170:Translational Research, Biomedical / Q000191:economics
keywords: clinical trials; translational research; trials
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