Browsing by Author "Rubio, Doris M."

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    Continued impact of COVID-19 pandemic on clinical and translational science early-career researchers
    (Cambridge University Press, 2022-12-07) Mayowski, Colleen; Meagher, Emma A.; Althouse, Andrew D.; Patino-Sutton, Cecilia; Thakar, Maya S.; Welch, Julie L.; Rubio, Doris M.; White, Gretchen E.; Emergency Medicine, School of Medicine
    The COVID-19 pandemic had an immediate impact on the lives and work of early-career researchers. We leveraged a cluster-randomized trial and compared survey data collected over two timepoints to explore whether these impacts persisted. Although more than a year had passed, 74% of participants reported that their research was affected in multiple ways in both 2020 and 2021. These data suggest that the effects of the pandemic on early-career researchers may be prolonged. Our findings additionally serve as an impetus to identify and implement solutions to early-career challenges that undoubtedly existed before the pandemic, but which COVID-19 brought into the spotlight.
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    Developing Common Metrics for the Clinical and Translational Science Awards (CTSAs): Lessons Learned.
    (Wiley, 2015-10) Rubio, Doris M.; Blank, Arthur E.; Dozier, Ann; Hites, Lisle; Gilliam, Victoria A.; Hunt, Joe; Rainwater, Julie; Trochim, William M.; Indiana CTSI
    The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Roadmap for Medical Research initiative, funded by the NIH Common Fund and offered through the Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) program, developed more than 60 unique models for achieving the NIH goal of accelerating discoveries toward better public health. The variety of these models enabled participating academic centers to experiment with different approaches to fit their research environment.A central challenge related to the diversity of approaches is the ability to determine the success and contribution of each model. This paper describes the effort by the Evaluation Key Function Committee to develop and test a methodology for identifying a set of common metrics to assess the efficiency of clinical research processes and for pilot testing these processes for collecting and analyzing metrics. The project involved more than one-fourth of all CTSAs and resulted in useful information regarding the challenges in developing common metrics, the complexity and costs of acquiring data for the metrics, and limitations on the utility of the metrics in assessing clinical research performance. The results of this process led to the identification of lessons learned and recommendations for development and use of common metrics to evaluate the CTSA effort.