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The Translational Research Impact Scale

Year: 2013

Type: article

Abstract: Increasing emphasis is being placed on measuring return on research investment and determining the true impacts of biomedical research for medical practice and population health. This article describes initial progress on development of a new standardized tool for identifying and measuring impacts across research sites. The Translational Research Impact Scale (TRIS) is intended to provide a systematic approach to assessing impact levels using a set of 72 impact indicators organized into three broad research impact domains and nine subdomains. A validation process was conducted with input from a panel of 31 experts in translational research, who met to define and standardize the measurement of research impacts using the TRIS. Testing was performed to estimate the reliability of the experts' ratings. The reliability was found to be high (ranging from .75 to .94) in all of the domains and most of the subdomains. A weighting process was performed assigning item weights to the individual indicators, so that composite scores can be derived.

Source: Evaluation & the Health Professions

DOI: 10.1177/0163278713506112

Authors: Allard E. Dembe, Michele S. Lynch, P. Cristian Gugiu, Rebecca D. Jackson

Institution: The Ohio State University

Language: English

Topic: Health and Medical Research Impacts

Subfield: Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

Field: Medicine

Domain: Health Sciences

Open Access status: green

Funders: National Institutes of Health, National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences

Award: The Ohio State University Center for Clinical and Translational Science (UL1)