{"id":58580,"date":"2018-06-04T10:50:02","date_gmt":"2018-06-04T14:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm\/?p=58580"},"modified":"2018-06-04T10:50:02","modified_gmt":"2018-06-04T14:50:02","slug":"researchers-create-new-tool-to-better-evaluate-implementation-of-science-research-proposals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/2018\/06\/04\/researchers-create-new-tool-to-better-evaluate-implementation-of-science-research-proposals\/","title":{"rendered":"Researchers Create New Tool to Better Evaluate Implementation of Science Research Proposals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at Boston University\u2019s Evans Center for Implementation and Improvement Sciences (CIIS) have developed a new scoring criteria for evaluating the quality of scientific research proposals. Termed <strong>I<\/strong>mpleme<strong>N<\/strong>tation and Improvement <strong>S<\/strong>ciences <strong>P<\/strong>roposals <strong>E<\/strong>valuation <strong>C<\/strong>ri<strong>T<\/strong>eria (INSPECT), this new approach aims to improve identification of high-quality proposed research that advances improvements in health care delivery and patient outcomes.<\/p>\n<p>Research proposals are traditionally evaluated using National Institutes of Health (NIH) criteria for impact, significance, innovation and approach. This criteria works well for evaluating the quality of research seeking to test the effectiveness of new interventions. However, the CIIS team found NIH criteria were not specific enough to evaluate research that tests strategies to promote uptake of evidence-based practices in real-world settings.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_58581\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-58581\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/camed\/files\/2018\/06\/EC_BUProfile-479x636.jpg\" alt=\"COM_erika crable\" width=\"140\" height=\"186\" class=\"wp-image-58581\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/files\/2018\/06\/EC_BUProfile-479x636.jpg 479w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/files\/2018\/06\/EC_BUProfile-768x1021.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/files\/2018\/06\/EC_BUProfile-770x1024.jpg 770w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/files\/2018\/06\/EC_BUProfile.jpg 793w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 140px) 100vw, 140px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-58581\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Corresponding author Erika Crable, MPH<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cImplementation science is the study of strategies applied at the patient, provider, organization or health system level that promote the systematic uptake of evidence-based practices which are otherwise underused,\u201d said corresponding author Erika Crable, MPH, research fellow at CIIS. \u201cOnce we have evidence that an intervention works, implementation science asks, \u2018How do we get people to use the intervention, with fidelity, in a sustainable way?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In order to test the reliability of INSPECT, CIIS researchers from BUSM independently applied this new criteria to 30 grant proposals. Overall, the proposals scored high on INSPECT criteria evaluating the significance of the care or quality gap to be addressed by the proposed research. However, proposals scored poorly across most other criteria, signaling the need for expanding education and training in implementation science at an academic medical center.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur study suggests that the traditional efficacy\/effectiveness grant scoring lens is insufficient to evaluate key aspects of research seeking to promote the use of evidence-based practices in real-world settings. Instead we suggest a new grant scoring criteria that is reliable in evaluating specific goals of implementation science research,\u201d Crable said.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers believe that developing a reliable, implementation science-specific scoring criteria will be a valuable tool for grant reviewers seeking to evaluate proposed implementation science, and for grant writers looking for guidance on how to effectively communicate implementation science research approaches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new approach aims to improve identification of high-quality proposed research that advances improvements in health care delivery and patient outcomes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12772,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[91,90],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58580"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12772"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58580"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58583,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58580\/revisions\/58583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}