Year: 2022
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: The organizational structures of collaborative biostatistics units in academic health centers (AHCs) in the United States and their important contributions to research are an evolving and active area of discussion and inquiry. Collaborative biostatistics units may serve as a centralized resource to investigators across various disciplines or as shared infrastructure for investigators within a discipline (e.g., cancer), or a combination of both. The characteristics of such units vary greatly, and there has been no comprehensive review of their organizational structures described in the literature to date. This manuscript summarizes the current infrastructure of such units using responses from 129 leaders. Most leaders were over 45 years old, held doctoral degrees, and were on a 12-month appointment. Over half were tenured or on a tenure track and held primary appointments in a school of medicine. Career advancement metrics most important included being funded as co-investigator on NIH grants and being either first or second author on peer-reviewed publications. Team composition was diverse in terms of expertise and training, and funding sources were typically hybrid. These results provide a benchmark for collaboration models and evaluation and may be used by institutional administrators as they build, evaluate, or restructure current collaborative quantitative support infrastructure.
Source: Stat
DOI: 10.1002/sta4.521
Institutions: Virginia Tech, Wake Forest University Health Sciences, Wake Forest University, The Ohio State University, Stanford Medicine, Stanford University, University of California, Davis, University of Colorado Denver, The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, Northwestern University, Duke University
Language: English
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
Estimated APC paid: $3,450
Awards: The OSU Center for Clinical and Translational Science: Advancing Today's Discoveries to Improve Health, Wake Forest Clinical and Translational Science Award, Duke CTSA, The integrated Translational Health Research Institute of Virginia (iTHRIV): Using Data to Improve Health, Northwestern University Clinical and Translational Science Institute (NUCATS), UC Davis Clinical and Translational Science Center
OpenAlex ID: W4308043908