Translation of Rehabilitation Engineering Advances and Technology (TREAT)

描述(由申请人提供)：这一医疗康复研究资源(R24)基础设施核心，康复工程进步与技术翻译(Treat)，将为包括残疾人在内的医疗康复研究人员、临床医生、生物工程师和医疗康复技术发明者提供一个全国性的资源，用于康复应用的翻译和商业化。将利用核心团队和核心合作伙伴组织的专业知识，提供早期产品评估、技术评估、原型开发、商业化规划和执行，并在康复研究社区内开发和促进比较有效性的临床试验，扩展到诊所以外的更大社区。目标是：1)迅速扩大与康复技术评估和商业化相关的医疗康复研究人员的知识库和教育；2)在全美范围内为评估和翻译康复技术的新想法提供基础设施和核心服务。 公共卫生相关性：康复研究和技术的技术转让和适当的临床有效性试验严重缺乏。NCMRR特别感兴趣的是扩大其康复研究网络，将结果研究包括在内，以便更好地支持将基本和临床研究结果转化为现实世界的环境。虽然全国各地有几个中心专注于康复研究人员的职业发展，但目前还没有有针对性的努力来开发技术转让实践中的专门知识，以便更广泛地传播给康复研究界。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This medical rehabilitation research resource (R24) infrastructure core, Translation of Rehabilitation Engineering Advancement and Technology (TREAT), will provide a national resource for medical rehabilitation researchers, clinicians, bioengineers and medical rehabilitation technology inventors, including people with disabilities, for translation and commercialization of rehabilitation applications. The expertise of the core team and core partner organizations will be leveraged to provide early stage product evaluation, technology assessment, prototype development, commercialization planning and execution, and to develop and foster comparative effectiveness clinical trials within the rehabilitation research community, extending to the greater community beyond the clinic. The goals are to: 1) rapidly expand the knowledge base and education of medical rehabilitation researchers related to rehabilitation technology evaluation and commercialization, and 2) provide infrastructure and access to core services for evaluation and translation of novel ideas for rehabilitation technologies across the United States. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: Technology transfer and appropriate clinical effectiveness trials of rehabilitation research and technology are significantly lacking. NCMRR is particularly interested in extending its rehabilitation research networks to include outcomes research in order to better support the translation of basic and clinical findings into real-world settings. While there are several centers around the country that focuses on career development of rehabilitation researchers, there are currently no targeted efforts at developing expertise in the practice of technology transfer that can be disseminated more broadly to the rehabilitation research community.