Elworth Julie T, Vaught Melissa, Harvey Jillian, Paranal Rechelle, Zell Adrienne, El Bcheraoui Charbel
Institute of Translational Health Sciences (ITHS), University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
South Carolina Clinical & Translational Research Institute (SCTR), Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, USA.
J Clin Transl Sci. 2022 Aug 10;6(1):e114. doi: 10.1017/cts.2022.440. eCollection 2022.
BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVE: The Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) program aims to enhance the quality, efficiency, and impact of translation from discovery to interventions that improve human health. CTSA program hubs at medical research institutions across the United States develop and test innovative tools, methods, and processes, offering core resources and training for the clinical and translational research (CTR) workforce. Hubs have developed services across different domains, such as informatics and pilot studies, to provide expertise and staffing for local research teams. Although these services can provide efficient, cost-effective ways to cover skills gaps and implement rigorous studies, three CTSAs of varying size found the majority of investigators were single domain service users, likely missing opportunities to further enhance their work.
Through interviews with CTSA service users and a survey of CTSA service managers, this exploratory study aims to identify barriers to using services from multiple modules and solutions to overcome those barriers.
Barriers include challenges in finding information about services, unclear or unknown user needs, and users' lack of funding to engage in services. More issues were identified for the largest CTSA.
Although this study represents a small subset of CTSA hubs, we anticipate that our findings and proposed solutions will be relevant to the broader CTSA community. This study provides foundational information can use in their own efforts to increase service utilization and methods that can be used for more comprehensive studies that focus on explaining the relationship between CTSA features and rates of single versus cross-module service use.
背景/目标：临床与转化科学奖（CTSA）计划旨在提高从发现到改善人类健康的干预措施的转化质量、效率和影响力。美国各地医学研究机构的CTSA计划中心开发并测试创新工具、方法和流程，为临床与转化研究（CTR）人员提供核心资源和培训。中心已在不同领域（如信息学和试点研究）开发了服务，为当地研究团队提供专业知识和人员配备。尽管这些服务可以提供高效、经济有效的方式来弥补技能差距并开展严谨的研究，但三个不同规模的CTSA发现，大多数研究人员是单一领域服务的使用者，这可能会错过进一步提升其工作的机会。
通过对CTSA服务使用者的访谈以及对CTSA服务管理人员的调查，这项探索性研究旨在确定使用多个模块服务的障碍以及克服这些障碍的解决方案。
障碍包括查找服务信息方面的挑战、用户需求不明确或未知以及用户缺乏参与服务的资金。规模最大的CTSA发现的问题更多。
尽管本研究仅涵盖了一小部分CTSA中心，但我们预计我们的研究结果和提出的解决方案将与更广泛的CTSA社区相关。本研究提供了可用于自身提高服务利用率的基础信息，以及可用于更全面研究的方法，这些研究侧重于解释CTSA特征与单一模块服务使用与跨模块服务使用比率之间的关系。
