Table 1 Supports for clinical research integration and stakeholder engagement in research
Operational | • Financial support to displace clinical or clinical support personnel (i.e. protected time for research) • Protected time for research support tasks (e.g. recruitment, coordinating participant visits, obtaining consent, collecting data/specimens) • Expediting research agreements within the hospital • Research-dedicated space on clinical units • More timely access to population-based health information • aIncorporating research integration strategies into strategic objectives • Establishing knowledge translation support roles within clinical programme and committee structures • aResearch full-time equivalent allocation programme for clinical staff • aFunding for projects • aFunding for clinician-scientist training • Technology (e.g. online meetings and communication platforms) |
Human resources | • Research proposal writing • Research methodology consultation • Data input and management support • Developing systematic reviews, meta-analyses and clinical guidelines • Information technology • Conducting research • Facilitation of research implementation in clinical sectors • Needs assessment to guide the enactment of targeted supports |
Capacity building | • Research methodology • Grant writing • Navigating the ethics application process • Scientific writing • Knowledge translation • Development of knowledge broker competency development pathways • Needs assessment to guide capacity building efforts |
Collaboration | • aHospital recruitment of investigators, with support to develop/implement their research programmes • Engagement of research sector with clinical managers and operational leads • Formal collaboration of clinicians with the research institute to support interaction and exchange, planning for capacity building, and research • aEngaging RI Executive Director on hospital Operations committee • aEngaging management, leadership, families and the Foundation to review clinically situated research projects • aResearch institute partnerships with regional organizations funded by the health authority/university (e.g. Northern Alberta Clinical Trials and Research Centre) • aClinical sector partnerships with a university department |