Leroy Lisa, Rittner Jessica Levin, Johnson Karin E, Gerteis Jessie, Miller Therese
US Health Division, Abt Associates, Cambridge, MA.
MacColl Center for Health Care Innovation, Group Health Research Institute, Seattle, WA.
Healthc Policy. 2017 Feb;12(3):19-33.
Collaborative research networks are increasingly used as an effective mechanism for accelerating knowledge transfer into policy and practice. This paper explored the characteristics and collaborative learning approaches of nine health research networks.
DATA SOURCES/STUDY SETTING: Semi-structured interviews with representatives from eight diverse US health services research networks conducted between November 2012 and January 2013 and program evaluation data from a ninth.
The qualitative analysis assessed each network's purpose, duration, funding sources, governance structure, methods used to foster collaboration, and barriers and facilitators to collaborative learning.
The authors reviewed detailed notes from the interviews to distill salient themes.
Face-to-face meetings, intentional facilitation and communication, shared vision, trust among members and willingness to work together were key facilitators of collaborative learning. Competing priorities for members, limited funding and lack of long-term support and geographic dispersion were the main barriers to coordination and collaboration across research network members.
The findings illustrate the importance of collaborative learning in research networks and the challenges to evaluating the success of research network functionality. Conducting readiness assessments and developing process and outcome evaluation metrics will advance the design and show the impact of collaborative research networks.
合作研究网络越来越多地被用作一种将知识加速转化为政策和实践的有效机制。本文探讨了九个健康研究网络的特征和合作学习方法。
数据来源/研究背景：2012年11月至2013年1月期间，对美国八个不同的健康服务研究网络的代表进行了半结构化访谈，并获取了第九个网络的项目评估数据。
定性分析评估了每个网络的目的、持续时间、资金来源、治理结构、促进合作的方法以及合作学习的障碍和促进因素。
作者回顾了访谈的详细记录，以提炼出突出的主题。
面对面会议、有意的促进和沟通、共同愿景、成员之间的信任以及合作意愿是合作学习的关键促进因素。成员的相互竞争的优先事项、资金有限、缺乏长期支持以及地理分散是研究网络成员之间协调与合作的主要障碍。
研究结果说明了合作学习在研究网络中的重要性以及评估研究网络功能成功与否所面临的挑战。进行准备情况评估并制定过程和结果评估指标将推动合作研究网络的设计并展示其影响。
