Assessing the Organizational Climate for Translational Research with a New Survey Tool.

ABSTRACT: Promoting translational research as a means to overcoming chasms in the translation of knowledge through successive fields of research from basic science to public health impacts and back is a central challenge for research managers and policymakers. Organizational leaders need to assess baseline conditions, identify areas needing improvement, and to judge the impact of specific initiatives to sustain or improve translational research practices at their institutions. Currently, there is a lack of such an assessment tool addressing the specific context of translational biomedical research. To close this gap, we have developed a new survey for assessing the organizational climate for translational research. This self-assessment tool measures employees' perceptions of translational research c

SUBMITTER: Simons A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7755863 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature