A National Assessment of Cancer Center Shared Resources Metrics: Results from the First NACCSR Survey
Year: 2026
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: Tracking core metrics is a critical component of centralized core facility management and is essential for ensuring that individual cores are efficiently operated, effectively evaluated, and optimally catalyze research. The National Alliance of Cancer Center Shared Resources (NACCSR) is a consortium of shared resource leaders from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Cancer Institute (NCI) designated Cancer Centers. The NACCSR Core Metrics Committee (CMC) includes shared resource leaders from a dozen NCI-designated cancer centers. Presented here are the results of a recent CMC survey aimed at identifying core metrics critical to cancer center shared resources, including operations, usage, financials, and scientific impact. The end goals of this survey are to benchmark cancer center core metrics and to provide a base for recommendations on best practices for optimizing the tracking, evaluation, and presentation of core metrics. Moreover, these survey findings will inform evidence-based recommendations to the NCI on the essential core metrics to be incorporated into both the individual shared resource sections and the centralized shared resource management components of NCI P30 Cancer Center Support Grants.
DOI: 10.7171/001c.166574
Institutions: Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, University of Miami, Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist, Wake Forest Baptist Comprehensive Cancer Center, Wake Forest University Health Sciences, Wake Forest University, University of Florida Health, UF Health Cancer Center, The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center – Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute, Georgetown University Medical Center, University of California, Davis, University of Virginia Health System
Language: English
Subfield: Information Systems and Management
Field: Decision Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
Funders: University of Miami, Florida Department of Health, Ohio State University, Comprehensive Cancer Center at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Miami Health Systems, Bundesinstitut für Bau- Stadt- und Raumforschung, National Institutes of Health, University of Florida Health, Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine, National Cancer Institute
Awards: G1858189645, G20952977, G2156476721, G2577419345, G297978257, G305175183, G36614667, G424083508, G427533880, G4801435656, G4807429363, G5916996170, Georgetown University Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center Support Grant, University of Florida Health Cancer Center Support Grant, Cancer Center Support Grant, University of Virginia Cancer Center Support Grant
OpenAlex ID: W7204913642