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Evaluating Emergency Care Research Networks: What Are the Right Metrics?
Author(s) -
Baren Jill M.,
Middleton Melissa K.,
Kaji Amy H.,
O’Conner Robert E.,
Lindsell Christopher,
Weik Tasmeen Singh,
Lewis Roger J.
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
academic emergency medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.221
H-Index - 124
eISSN - 1553-2712
pISSN - 1069-6563
DOI - 10.1111/j.1553-2712.2009.00525.x
Subject(s) - medicine , accountability , inclusion (mineral) , emergency department , sustainability , medical emergency , process management , nursing , business , gender studies , ecology , sociology , political science , law , biology
Research networks can enable the inclusion of large, diverse patient populations in different settings. However, the optimal measures of a research network’s failure or success are not well defined or standardized. To define a framework for metrics used to measure the performance and effectiveness of emergency care research networks (ECRN), a conference for emergency care investigators, funding agencies, patient advocacy groups, and other stakeholders was held and yielded the following major recommendations: 1) ECRN metrics should be measurable, explicitly defined, and customizable for the multiple stakeholders involved and 2) continuing to develop and institute metrics to evaluate ECRNs will be critical for their accountability and sustainability.