Indiana Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute Metrics

poster abstractThe Indiana Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute (Indiana CTSI) activities are designed to contribute to the achievement of NIH Strategic Goals for the Clinical and Translational Sciences Award program. The Indiana CTSI uses a Logic Model-based system of metrics to provide data to the NIH regarding Indiana CTSI accomplishments. The metrics address achievement of Specific Aims, number of investigators benefitting from Indiana CTSI resources, publications generated from Indiana CTSI-supported activities, and the awarding of pilot grant funds to support the acquisition of findings and data that may support applications for external funding. This poster shows the growth in Indiana CTSI accomplishments over the first three years of the CTSA grant. Conclusions: The Indiana CTSI has increased its contribution to the NIH strategic goals to advance the conduct of clinical and translational sciences through support of investigators, the contribution of new knowledge, and support for pilot grant activity

Enhancing a Taxonomy for Health Information Technology: An Exploratory Study of User Input Towards Folksonomy

The U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality has created a public website to disseminate critical information regarding its health information technology initiative. The website is maintained by AHRQ's Natiomal Resource Center (NRC) for Health Information Technology. In the latest continuous quality improvement project, the NRC used the site's search logs to extract user-generated search phrases. The phrases were then compared to the site's controlled vocabulary with respect to language, grammar, and search precision. Results of the comparison demonstrate that search log data can be a cost-effective way to improve controlled vocabularies as well as information retrieval. User-entered search phrases were found to also share many similarities with folksonomy tags

Development of a Taxonomy for Health Information Technology

Taxonomies provide schemas to help classify entities and define the relationships between them. Early computing enabled the development of ontologies and Medical Subject Headings (MeSH), the first modern classification of medical terminology as applied to medical literature. Later developments, such as MEDLINE, expanded MeSH to include a number of medical informatics terms. However, a lack of specificity in MeSH and other existing informatics taxonomies for terminology used to describe the growing field of health information technology (health IT) created the need for the development of a specialized taxonomy. Experts associated with the Agency for Healthcare Research and Qualitys (AHRQs) National Resource Center for Health Information Technology (NRC) created and evaluated a taxonomy for health IT, to enable users of a public health IT Web site to efficiently identify resources within an online, searchable repository

Linking Health Information Technology to Patient Safety and Quality Outcomes: A Bibliometric Analysis and Review

Informatics for Health and Social Care is published by Informa Healthcare. Publisher's version can be found at: http://informahealthcare.com/doi/abs/10.3109/17538157.2012.678451OBJECTIVE: To assess the scholarly output of grants funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) that published knowledge relevant to the impact of health information technologies on patient safety and quality of care outcomes. STUDY DESIGN: We performed a bibliometric analysis of the identified scholarly articles, their journals, and citations. In addition, we performed a qualitative review of the full-text articles and grant documents. DATA COLLECTION/EXTRACTION METHODS: Papers published by AHRQ-funded investigators were retrieved from MEDLINE, journal impact factors were extracted from the 2010 Thompson Reuters Journal Citation Report, citations were retrieved from ISI's Web of Knowledge and Google Scholar. PRINCIPAL FINDINGS: Seventy-two articles met the criteria for review. Most articles addressed one or more of AHRQ's outcome goals and focus priorities. The average impact factor for the journals was 4.005 (range: 0.654-28.899). The articles, and their respective grants, represented a broad range of health information technologies. CONCLUSIONS: This set of AHRQ-funded research projects addressed the goals and priorities of AHRQ, indicating notable contributions to the scientific knowledge base on the impact of information system use in healthcare.This work was supported, in part, by the National Resource Center of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, contract number 290-04-0016

Barriers and facilitators to refugees and asylum seekers accessing non hospital based care: A mixed methods systematic review protocol. [version 2; peer review: 2 approved]

Context Social exclusion is characterised by and represents a form of disadvantage and marginalisation of vulnerable groups of people in society, who cannot fully participate in the normal activities of daily living. People who are socially excluded such as asylum seekers and refugees have complex healthcare needs and tend to present more to the acute hospital setting as emergency presentations. Little is known about barriers and facilitators experienced by this group to accessing nonhospital based care. Objectives This mixed methods systematic review, will critically examine the concept of barriers and facilitators for refugees and asylum seekers to accessing non hospital based care. Methods This methodological review will follow the Joanna Briggs Institute guidance for conducting mixed methods reviews. The following databases will be searched: Central Medline, PubMed, Embase, CINAHL, and the Cochrane Library. Relevant grey literature will be included. Title and abstract screening, followed by full-text screening will be undertaken independently by two reviewers. The Joanna Briggs Institute extraction tool will be adapted for data extraction. Discussion This mixed method review will comprehensively evaluate quantitative and qualitative data, synthesise both barriers and facilitators and follow a systematic approach through establishing use of mixed methods research across asylum seekers and refugees, and how they affect accessing non-hospital based care. It will explore conceptual models of access to healthcare and how they influence these factors

Using Social Network Analysis Tools to Visualize and Analyze Collaboration in Use of CTSA Resources and Publications

poster abstractTo garner baseline data to determine whether or not the Indiana Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute (Indiana CTSI) was achieving collaboration across disciplines and institutions, the Indiana CTIS Tracking and Evaluation (T&E) Program compiled data regarding the utilization of resources across different Indiana CTSI programs and Project Development Teams (PDT) and data for the authors, departments, and institutional affiliations of Indiana CTSI peer reviewed publications. The Indiana CTSI T&E used a social networking tool, NodeXL, and data garnered to create a visualization of utilization of resources and publications co-authorship. The analysis showed the mean number of contacts with different resources per investigator was 1.37; every targeted program and PDT was shown to be linked to another. For publications analysis, 64 papers were identified with a total of 195 authors from the four Indiana CTSI member institutions. Sixty-nine of the authors were ICTSI investigators. However, 126 authors were non Indiana CTSI investigators although residing at partner institutions. Most surprising was that 140 authors were from 58 non-Indiana CTSI institutions. Conclusion: Baseline data indicates interdisciplinary and inter-institutional collaboration is already taking place

Appendices and Codebook for Evaluating Nursing Faculty\u27s Use of Frameworks and Standards in Information Literacy Instruction: A Multi-Institutional Study

In January 2018, the ACRL Health Sciences Interest Group (HSIG) convened a working group to revise the ACRL Information Literacy Competency Standards for Nursing (2013) into a Framework for Information Literacy in Higher Education for Nursing. For nearly two years, the working group has conducted research to understand how nursing faculty integrate information literacy instruction in nursing education. Results from a review of the literature and surveying of nursing faculty at nine higher education institutions suggest that a majority of nursing faculty are unaware of the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education but are intentional in using the AACN Essentials and other nursing standards to integrate information literacy in course curriculums

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