Evaluating Research Centers in Minority Institutions: Framework, Metrics, Best Practices, and Challenges.
Evaluating Research Centers in Minority Institutions: Framework, Metrics, Best Practices, and Challenges.
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DOI：
10.3390/ijerph17228373
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2020-11-12
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通讯作者：
Mehravaran S
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Sy A;Hayes T;Laurila K;Noboa C;Langwerden RJ;Hospital MM;Andújar-Pérez DA;Stevenson L;Cunningham SMR;Rollins L;Madanat H;Penn T;Mehravaran S
NIH资助的少数民族机构研究中心（RCMI）计划目前正在资助18个学术机构，以加强研究环境和对健康差异研究的贡献。这一多阶段混合方法研究的目的是建立一个统一的评价框架，以证明这一研究联盟的集体成功。方法包括在RCMI评估员研讨会上讨论目标和逻辑模型，通过文献综述为评估概念框架提供信息，以及通过案例研究调查获得与评估相关的信息和指标。10个区域协调机制参加了研讨会，14个区域协调机制提交了调查答复。由此产生的RCMI评价概念模型提出了一个实际的持续的方法来记录RCMI对健康差距的影响。调查结果确定了四个主要类别下的37个通用指标。评价方面的挑战是与有限的人力资源、数据收集、决策、界定衡量标准、费用分摊和创收有关的问题。有必要在RCMI站点之间进一步开展合作，以使项目领导和社区利益相关者参与解决已确定的评估挑战和测量。应让方案领导层参与应用评价概念框架和通用衡量标准，以便进行有效的机构间比较和整个联合体的评价。利益相关者可以确保评估指标用于促进社区影响。
The NIH-funded Research Centers in Minority Institutions (RCMI) program is currently funding 18 academic institutions to strengthen the research environment and contribution to health disparities research. The purpose of this multiphase mixed-methods study was to establish a uniform evaluation framework for demonstrating the collective success of this research consortium. Methods included discussions of aims and logic models at the RCMI Evaluators’ Workshop, a literature review to inform an evaluation conceptual framework, and a case study survey to obtain evaluation-related information and metrics. Ten RCMIs participated in the workshop and 14 submitted responses to the survey. The resultant RCMI Evaluation Conceptual Model presents a practical ongoing approach to document RCMIs’ impacts on health disparities. Survey results identified 37 common metrics under four primary categories. Evaluation challenges were issues related to limited human resources, data collection, decision-making, defining metrics, cost-sharing, and revenue-generation. There is a need for further collaborative efforts across RCMI sites to engage program leadership and community stakeholders in addressing the identified evaluation challenges and measurement. Program leadership should be engaged to apply the Evaluation Conceptual Framework and common metrics to allow for valid inter-institutional comparisons and consortium-wide evaluations. Stakeholders could ensure evaluation metrics are used to facilitate community impacts.
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