Encouraging the scale-up of proven interventions: Infrastructure development for the "Evidence-to-Implementation" award.

ABSTRACT:

Background/objective

Although most research universities offer investigators help in obtaining patents for inventions, investigators generally have few resources for scaling up non-patentable innovations, such as health behavior change interventions. In 2017, the dissemination and implementation (D & I) team at the University of Wisconsin's Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) created the Evidence-to-Implementation (E2I) award to encourage the scale-up of proven, non-patentable health interventions. The award was intended to give investigators financial support and business expertise to prepare evidence-based interventions for scale-up.

Methods

The D & I team adapted a set of criteria named Critical Factors Assessment, which has proven effective in predicting the

SUBMITTER: Quanbeck A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8427544 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature