Beasley J W, Hahn D L, Wiesen P, Plane M B, Manwell L
J Fam Pract. 2000 Nov;49(11):985-9.
A significant portion of research project costs is incurred before the receipt of grant funds. This poses a problem for the initiation of primary care research, especially in community practice settings. Potential investigators need financial support for staff time, training, pilot work, and grant proposal writing if primary care researchers are to compete successfully for grant funds. To find this support, we need to understand and eventually quantify the actual costs of research with attention to those that are incurred before the receipt of grant funds. We outline 10 phases of the research process and provide a model for understanding where costs are incurred and by whom. Costs include those associated with maintaining practice interest in research, supporting practice participation, and disseminating research findings. They may be incurred by either an academic center or a research network, by the practices and physicians themselves, or by an extramural funding source. The needed investment for initiating primary care research can be itemized and, with further research, quantified. This will enhance the arguments for capital investments in the primary care research enterprise.
研究项目成本的很大一部分是在获得资助资金之前产生的。这给初级保健研究的启动带来了问题，尤其是在社区实践环境中。如果初级保健研究人员要成功竞争资助资金，潜在的研究人员在人员时间、培训、试点工作和撰写资助申请方面需要资金支持。为了找到这种支持，我们需要了解并最终量化研究的实际成本，尤其要关注在获得资助资金之前产生的成本。我们概述了研究过程的10个阶段，并提供了一个模型，以了解成本产生的地点和主体。成本包括与维持实践对研究的兴趣、支持实践参与以及传播研究结果相关的成本。这些成本可能由学术中心或研究网络、实践机构和医生自身，或外部资助来源产生。启动初级保健研究所需的投资可以逐项列出，并通过进一步研究进行量化。这将增强对初级保健研究企业进行资本投资的论据。
