Griffith Health, Griffith University, Nathan, Queensland, Australia.
Faculty of Health, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Int J Health Plann Manage. 2022 Jan;37(1):133-142. doi: 10.1002/hpm.3318. Epub 2021 Sep 6.
The embedded researcher model proposes that if research is co-produced with academics, clinical staff will have greater engagement with and ownership of the research findings, and they will be able to integrate evidence in practice. This paper describes the role and purpose of embedded researchers in Australian healthcare settings.
A purposive sample of current and former embedded researchers were invited to participate in an exploratory online survey. Embedded researchers were defined as individuals with research qualifications who worked, or had worked, for at least 30% of their time in a healthcare organisation doing research or research capacity building.
Most embedded researchers described a dual purpose, in building clinicians' capacity for research while also undertaking clinical research. Only a small proportion of respondents described their purpose as supporting and improving clinical practice. Most embedded researchers described working to both traditional academic key performance indicators and a complementary range of clinical performance and healthcare service indicators.
Embedded researchers provide more research development and engagement in health services than is recognised or currently reported. In addition to traditional academic indicators, they described a broad range of clinical and health service indicators which measured capacity building.
嵌入式研究人员模式提出，如果研究与学术界共同开展，临床工作人员将更积极地参与并拥有研究成果，并能够将证据融入实践。本文描述了澳大利亚医疗保健环境中嵌入式研究人员的角色和目的。
邀请了现任和前任嵌入式研究人员参加一项探索性在线调查。嵌入式研究人员的定义是具有研究资格的个人，他们至少有 30%的时间在医疗机构工作，从事研究或研究能力建设。
大多数嵌入式研究人员描述了双重目的，即在建立临床医生的研究能力的同时进行临床研究。只有一小部分受访者将其目的描述为支持和改善临床实践。大多数嵌入式研究人员描述了他们既要达到传统的学术主要绩效指标，也要达到一系列补充的临床绩效和医疗服务指标。
嵌入式研究人员在卫生服务中提供的研究开发和参与程度超过了目前所认识或报告的程度。除了传统的学术指标外，他们还描述了一系列广泛的临床和卫生服务指标，这些指标衡量了能力建设。
