Gillard Anna K, McNeair Tracy, Andrew Nadine E, Haines Terry, Hill Keith D, Moran Chris, Rawson Helen, Russell Grant, Long Katrina M
School of Primary and Allied Healthcare, Monash University, Frankston, Victoria, Australia.
National Centre for Healthy Ageing, Ngarnga Centre, Frankston, Victoria, Australia.
Gerontologist. 2025 Feb 17;65(3). doi: 10.1093/geront/gnae152.
An aging population worldwide has highlighted the need for improved care in long-term aged care homes. In Australia, such homes are called Residential Aged Care homes, and reform is underway to improve the quality and safety of aged care. A key enabler of quality improvement is increasing evidence-based practice through creating a system to support research translation. Collaborative multi-stakeholder research networks offer a potential solution by bringing together stakeholders to identify evidence-to-practice gaps, co-design research and translate knowledge into practice. The aim of this scoping review was to understand the current evidence on the creation and maintenance of multi-stakeholder aged care research networks internationally, reported facilitators and barriers, and outcomes.
An academic literature search in 5 databases to identify existing multi-stakeholder aged care research networks. A grey literature search was conducted using Google, Google Scholar, grey literature databases, and a manual search of targeted websites.
10 papers and 19 web-based resources were identified, reporting on 6 multi-stakeholder research networks internationally. Enabling factors of successful networks included flexibility in structure, good governance, leveraging pre-existing research relationships, consistent and open communication, staff with dual roles in research and practice, and a focus on building long-term partnerships independent of research projects.
Collaborative multi-stakeholder research networks offer promise for improving research translation in aged care. Advancing the development of impactful multi-stakeholder aged care research networks requires internationally agreed terminology for network models, clear reporting and evaluation guidelines, and dedicated infrastructure resources.
全球人口老龄化凸显了改善长期老年护理机构护理服务的必要性。在澳大利亚，此类机构被称为“老年护理院”，目前正在进行改革以提高老年护理的质量和安全性。质量提升的一个关键推动因素是通过建立一个支持研究成果转化的系统来增加循证实践。多方利益相关者合作的研究网络通过汇聚利益相关者来识别证据与实践之间的差距、共同设计研究并将知识转化为实践，提供了一种潜在的解决方案。本范围综述的目的是了解国际上关于多方利益相关者老年护理研究网络的创建与维持的现有证据、已报道的促进因素和障碍以及成果。
在5个数据库中进行学术文献检索，以识别现有的多方利益相关者老年护理研究网络。使用谷歌、谷歌学术、灰色文献数据库进行灰色文献检索，并对目标网站进行手动检索。
共识别出10篇论文和19个基于网络的资源，报道了国际上6个多方利益相关者研究网络。成功网络的促成因素包括结构灵活性、良好的治理、利用现有的研究关系、一致且开放的沟通、在研究和实践中兼具双重角色的工作人员，以及专注于建立独立于研究项目的长期伙伴关系。
多方利益相关者合作的研究网络有望改善老年护理中的研究成果转化。推进有影响力的多方利益相关者老年护理研究网络的发展需要国际认可的网络模型术语、明确的报告和评估指南，以及专门的基础设施资源。
