Development and use of a novel tool for assessing and improving researcher embeddedness in learning health systems and applied system improvements.

ABSTRACT: This paper outlines the development, deployment and use, and testing of a tool for measuring and improving healthcare researcher embeddedness - i.e., being connected to and engaged with key leverage points and stakeholders in a health system. Despite the widely acknowledged importance of embeddedness for learning health systems and late-stage translational research, we were not aware of useful tools for addressing and improving embeddedness in scholar training programs. We developed the MN-LHS Embeddedness Tool covering connections to committees, working groups, leadership, and other points of contact across four domains: patients and caregivers; local practice (e.g., operations and workflows); local institutional research (e.g., research committees and agenda- or initiative-setting groups

SUBMITTER: Shippee ND 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10789988 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature