Type: Online Paper

Level: Intermediate

Description: This toolkit provides strategies and tools, such as research readiness checklists, sample forms and case stories, based on lessons learned from the national and community partners involved in the Genetics Education Needs Evaluation (GENE) Project, a cooperative agreement between the March of Dimes and the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA).Author: Aida Giachello

Type: Online Tutorial

Level: Basic

Description: This workbook is designed to complement the other materials in the NCI Clinical Trials Education Series. Each section of this workbook features information about different aspects of clinical trials, usually followed by an exercise or questions.

Continuing Education Credits: N/A

Type: PDF Powerpoint Handout

Level: Basic

Description: This is a PDF hand-out of a presentation conducted by Dr. Jonathan N. Tobin, President and CEO of Clinical Directors Network, at the 2013 National Association of Community Health Centers Community Health Institute and Expo in Chicago, IL.  As a best-practice example, he discusses the infrastructure of this Practice-Based Research Network (PBRN), Clinical Directors Network, and also a network of PBRNS, N2: Building a Network of Safety Net PBRNS, which is funded by the Agency for Health Care Research and Quality (AHRQ, Grant # 1 P30-HS-021667). He describes how this infrastructure supports bottom-up and top-down approaches to translational research implementation within Health Centers across the nation. He also describes an example of research training for clinical leaders, conducted at Lutheran Family Health Centers, a program meant to facilitate the development of translational research within Health Center networks.

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NACHC CHI2013 Tools for Building Research Infrastructure at Health Centers

Type: Audio/video capture (6 min in duration)

Level: Basic

Description: This video describes a example of integrating Health IT systems into practice. The described project’s goal was to use Health IT to facilitate information movement and combat care fragmentation.  The project monitored 6,000 patients with complex health needs, and, when care was delivered, a multi-prong approach notified all parties involved.

Type: Toolkit

Level: Intermediate

Description:

From the toolkit:

“This toolkit is designed to provide clinical and administrative staff at Community Health Centers with the elements involved in building a primary care research infrastructure. Organized into eight stand-alone modules, health center clinicians and staff will find information on the following:

1. Introduction to Quality Improvement and Research
2. Building Primary Care Research Infrastructure
3. Data: Access and Utilization
4. Study Design and Methods Overview
5. Dissemination and Action
6. Funding Your Research
7. Partnerships for Research
8. Ethics and the Institutional Review Board”

Type: PDF Document

Level: Intermediate

Description: This is a training manual that consists of modules and handouts on Community Based Participatory Research concepts and methodologies, grounded in a real life example.

Type: Online Modules

Level: Basic

Description: A toolkit for health research in partnership with practices and communities that is active and growing.  ”Whether you are just getting started, or have been active in research for awhile, we have tools and guidance for all aspects of a research project, so that you don’t have to start from scratch. This web site is organized by phase of research, and all of the resources here have been vetted and curated by our team.”

1.    Building Collaborations

2.    Developing Proposals 

3.    Starting Up a Study 

4.    Conducting and Managing Projects 

5.    Disseminating and Closing Research 

6.    Resources for Training 

Type: Online Modules

Level: Intermediate

Description: Community health centers that serve our most vulnerable populations play an important role in improving the health of communities. The potential for their role in the research enterprise and in translating evidence into practice is enormous. But, they often lack the infrastructure, resources, and time necessary to effectively lead or collaborate in research. This toolkit is designed to provide clinical and administrative staff at Community Health Centers with the elements involved in building a primary care research infrastructure. Organized into eight stand-alone modules, health center clinicians and staff will find information on the following:

1. Introduction to Quality Improvement and Research Module 1 slides [PDF].
2. Building Primary Care Research Infrastructure Module 2 slides [PDF].
3. Data: Access and Utilization Module 3 slides [PDF].
4. Study Design and Methods Overview Module 4 slides [PDF].
5. Dissemination and Action Module 5 slides [PDF].
6. Funding Your Research Module 6 slides [PDF].
7. Partnerships for Research Module 7 slides [PDF].
8. Ethics and the Institutional Review Board Module 8 slides [PDF].

The toolkit is a product of the Safety Net Infrastructure Initiative, a program of the Community Health Innovation and Research Program, Harvard Catalyst | The Harvard Clinical and Translational Science Center.

Type: Online Module

Level: Intermediate

Description:

Community health centers that serve our most vulnerable populations play an important role in improving the health of communities. The potential for their role in the research enterprise and in translating evidence into practice is enormous. But, they often lack the infrastructure, resources, and time necessary to effectively lead or collaborate in research. This toolkit is designed to provide clinical and administrative staff at Community Health Centers with the elements involved in building a primary care research infrastructure.

Module 2 imparts knowledge on assessing organizational readiness to build research infrastructure and provider-level capacity in conducting research. The participants will also be able to identify and address costs of engaging in research.

The toolkit is a product of the Safety Net Infrastructure Initiative, a program of the Community Health Innovation and Research Program, Harvard Catalyst | The Harvard Clinical and Translational Science Center.

Type: Online Module

Level: Intermediate

Description: Community health centers that serve our most vulnerable populations play an important role in improving the health of communities. The potential for their role in the research enterprise and in translating evidence into practice is enormous. But, they often lack the infrastructure, resources, and time necessary to effectively lead or collaborate in research. This toolkit is designed to provide clinical and administrative staff at Community Health Centers with the elements involved in building a primary care research infrastructure.

Module 1 provides an understanding of the need for primary care research as well as the value of engaging in research or quality improvement (QI) efforts at health centers. Additionally, participants will learn about the different paradigms of research and the fundamental steps to initiate research.

The toolkit is a product of the Safety Net Infrastructure Initiative, a program of the Community Health Innovation and Research Program, Harvard Catalyst | The Harvard Clinical and Translational Science Center.