Guthrie Susan, Krapels Joachim, Lichten Catherine A, Wooding Steven
Rand Health Q. 2017 Jan 1;6(4):14. eCollection 2017 Jan.
Biomedical research affects society in many ways. It has been shown to improve health, create jobs, add to our knowledge, and foster new collaborations. Despite the complexity of modern research, many of the metrics used to evaluate the impacts of research still focus on the traditional, often academic, part of the research pathway, covering areas such as the amount of grant funding received and the number of peer-reviewed publications. In response to increasing expectations of accountability and transparency, the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), in collaboration with RAND Europe, undertook a project to help communicate the wider value of biomedical research. The initiative developed resources to support academic medical centers in evaluating the outcomes and impacts of their research using approaches relevant to various stakeholders, including patients, providers, administrators, and legislators. This study presents 100 ideas for metrics that can be used to assess and communicate the value of biomedical research. The list is not comprehensive, and the metrics are not fully developed, but they should serve to stimulate and broaden thinking about how academic medical centers can communicate the value of their research to a broad range of stakeholders.
生物医学研究在许多方面影响着社会。研究表明，它能改善健康、创造就业机会、增进我们的知识并促进新的合作。尽管现代研究很复杂，但许多用于评估研究影响的指标仍聚焦于研究路径中传统的、通常是学术性的部分，涵盖诸如获得的资助金额和同行评审出版物数量等领域。为回应人们对问责制和透明度日益增长的期望，美国医学院协会（AAMC）与欧洲兰德公司合作开展了一个项目，以帮助传达生物医学研究更广泛的价值。该倡议开发了相关资源，以支持学术医疗中心采用与包括患者、医疗服务提供者、管理人员和立法者在内的各类利益相关者相关的方法，来评估其研究的成果和影响。本研究提出了100个可用于评估和传达生物医学研究价值的指标构想。这份清单并不全面，这些指标也未完全成熟，但它们应有助于激发并拓宽关于学术医疗中心如何向广泛的利益相关者传达其研究价值的思考。
