title: From Research to Practice: Which Research Strategy Contributes More to Clinical Excellence? Comparing High-Volume versus High-Quality Biomedical Research.
abstract: The question when and to what extent academic research can benefit society is of great interest to policy-makers and the academic community. Physicians in university hospitals represent a highly relevant test-group for studying the link between research and practice because they engage in biomedical academic research while also providing medical care of measurable quality. Physicians' research contribution to medical practice can be driven by either high-volume or high-quality research productivity, as often pursuing one productivity strategy excludes the other. To empirically examine the differential contribution to medical practice of the two strategies, we collected secondary data on departments across three specializations (Cardiology, Oncology and Orthopedics) in 50 U.S.-based university hospitals served by 4,330 physicians. Data on volume and quality of biomedical research at each department was correlated with publicly available ratings of departments' quality of care, demonstrating that high-quality research has significantly greater contribution to quality of care than high-volume research.
authors.affiliation: Department of Business and Management, Guilford Glazer Faculty of Management, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel.
authors.forename: Anat
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Tchetchik
authors.affiliation: Department of Business and Management, Guilford Glazer Faculty of Management, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel; Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; D'Amore-McKim School of Business, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America.
authors.forename: Amir
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Grinstein
authors.affiliation: Department of Business and Management, Guilford Glazer Faculty of Management, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel; The School of Industrial Management, Jerusalem College of Technology, Jerusalem, Israel.
authors.forename: Eran
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Manes
authors.affiliation: Department of Business and Management, Guilford Glazer Faculty of Management, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel.
authors.forename: Daniel
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Shapira
authors.affiliation: Cardiology Division, Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel.
authors.forename: Ronen
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Durst
mesh_terms: D015706:Bibliometrics; D035843:Biomedical Research / Q000592:standards*; D002309:Cardiology / Q000592:standards; D003625:Data Collection; D006785:Hospitals, University; D006801:Humans; D008495:Medical Oncology / Q000592:standards; D017059:Models, Econometric; D009985:Orthopedics / Q000592:standards; D010820:Physicians; D039781:PubMed; D011642:Publications; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D012044:Regression Analysis; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D014481:United States