How do academic health centers value and encourage clinical research?
Acad Med
; 76(7): 700-6, 2001 Jul.
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| ID: mdl-11448823
ABSTRACT
To investigate whether there is a misalignment of the perceived values of and incentives for clinical research within U.S. academic health centers (AHCs), in 1999 the authors surveyed medical school deans, academic administrators, department chairs, and faculty members at 80 AHCs that are the members of the University HealthSystem Consortium, a not-for-profit consortium of AHCs. A total of 358 faculty from 58% of the institutions surveyed responded, with a mean of 3.76 responses/institution. There was general agreement that clinical research offers AHCs a considerable spectrum of benefits, including prestige, recruitment and retention of faculty, criteria for promotion of faculty, and financial support. Investigator-initiated research and government-funded research ranked highest in terms of their desirability compared with industry-sponsored and contract research. This preference was agreed upon across all categories of respondents and types of research (translational, clinical tests, and outcomes). Significant differences existed between the perceptions of deans/AHC administrators, who stated that they were increasing their emphasis on clinical investigation in the areas of research space (56% of responders), administrative support (81%), and patient recruitment (61%) and the perceptions of their departmental chairs/faculties in the same areas (34%, 52%, and 40%, respectively; p <.05). Faculty opinions documented few new investments in the actual infrastructure dedicated to clinical research. The authors conclude that their findings, which they consider reasonably representative, strongly suggest that the value of clinical research to AHCs is well understood. Their findings also identify important opportunities for AHCs to provide a wider range of incentives for the conduct of clinical research.
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01-internacional
Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Pesquisa
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Atitude do Pessoal de Saúde
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Centros Médicos Acadêmicos
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Docentes de Medicina
Tipo de estudo:
Prognostic_studies
Limite:
Humans
País/Região como assunto:
America do norte
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Acad Med
Assunto da revista:
EDUCACAO
Ano de publicação:
2001
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de afiliação:
Estados Unidos