College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, Drake University, Des Moines, IA, United States.
College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, Drake University, Des Moines, IA, United States.
Res Social Adm Pharm. 2018 Jul;14(7):673-677. doi: 10.1016/j.sapharm.2017.08.002. Epub 2017 Aug 8.
Many American colleges of pharmacy are small, private, teaching institutions. Faculty are required to maintain a research agenda, although the publication quota is less compared with their publicly funded college of pharmacy peers. Faculty at these smaller schools conduct research with very little internal or external funding. This tends to lead to smaller, less impactful research findings. Translational research is becoming popular for research faculty as it bridges theory to practice. The Knowledge-to-Action (KTA) framework presents the steps to conduct translational research.
To apply and determine if the KTA framework would be able to produce practice-impactful research at an institution that does not depend on grant funding as part of faculty research agendas.
An interdisciplinary team was formed with providers at the clinical faculty's practice site. As the team moved through the KTA steps, authors documented the roles of each team member. It was clear that many different types of teams were formed throughout the KTA process. These teams were then categorized according to the Interdisciplinary Teamwork System. The final result is a proposed model of types of teams and required member roles that are necessary within each KTA step for faculty to conduct practice-impactful research at a small, private, teaching institution without substantial grant funding awards.
Applying the KTA framework, two impactful original research manuscripts were developed over two academic years. Furthermore, the practitioners at the clinical faculty member's site were very pleased with the ease of conducting research, as they were never required to take a lead role. In addition, both faculty members alternated lead and support role allowing for a decreased burden of workload while producing theory-driven research.
The KTA framework can create a model for translational research and may be particularly beneficial to small teaching institutions to conduct impactful research.
许多美国药学院规模较小，是私立的教学机构。尽管与获得公共资金的药学院同行相比，他们的发表配额较少，但教师仍需制定研究计划。这些规模较小的学校的教师几乎没有内部或外部资金进行研究。这往往导致研究结果规模较小，影响力也较小。转化研究越来越受到研究教师的欢迎，因为它将理论与实践联系起来。知识转化行动（KTA）框架提出了进行转化研究的步骤。
应用并确定 KTA 框架是否能够在不依赖资助作为教师研究计划一部分的情况下，在一个不依赖资助的机构产生具有实践影响力的研究。
一个由临床教师实践场所的提供者组成的跨学科团队成立了。随着团队在 KTA 步骤中前进，作者记录了每个团队成员的角色。很明显，在整个 KTA 过程中形成了许多不同类型的团队。然后，根据跨学科团队工作系统对这些团队进行分类。最终的结果是提出了一个模型，说明了在没有大量资助的情况下，小型私立教学机构的教师在每个 KTA 步骤中进行具有实践影响力的研究所需的团队类型和成员角色。
应用 KTA 框架，在两个学术年度内开发了两份具有影响力的原始研究手稿。此外，临床教师所在实践场所的从业者对开展研究的便利性非常满意，因为他们从未被要求担任领导角色。此外，两位教师轮流担任领导和支持角色，在产生理论驱动的研究的同时减轻了工作量负担。
KTA 框架可以为转化研究创建一个模型，对于进行有影响力的研究的小型教学机构尤其有益。
