A qualitative systematic review and thematic synthesis exploring the impacts of clinical academic activity by healthcare professionals outside medicine.

ABSTRACT:

Background

There are increasing opportunities for healthcare professionals outside medicine to be involved in and lead clinical research. However, there are few roles within these professions that include time for research. In order to develop such roles, and evaluate effective use of this time, the range of impacts of this clinical academic activity need to be valued and understood by healthcare leaders and managers. To date, these impacts have not been comprehensively explored, but are suggested to extend beyond traditional quantitative impact metrics, such as publications, citations and funding awards.

Methods

Ten databases, four grey literature repositories and a naïve web search engine were systematically searched for articles reporting impacts of clinical academic acti

SUBMITTER: Newington L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8082861 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature