Research Ready Training Resources for Staff Engagement

Clinical staff seeking to improve engagement in clinic-based research studies and increase their knowledge of basic research principles can use these training materials and best practices for implementing studies in clinical settings and communicating with clinical support staff. Content and format for the resources were informed by both clinic staff and research team members who conduct studies in clinical settings.

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Building Stakeholder Capacity to Engage around Technical Content

This webinar could be a helpful resource for researchers and organizations working to engage patients in discussions and decision-making related to complex and highly technical topics. Panelists Monique Does (Kaiser Permanente) and Liz Salmi (OpenNotes) discuss tools and strategies for engaging stakeholders in research data and methodology topics, and their own experiences with this type of engagement from a researcher and patient/researcher perspective. Greg Merritt (PaTH Network) moderates.

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Digital Tools for Facilitating Patient/Partner Engagement

This townhall-style webinar can be used by researchers and organizations interested in learning more about using digital tools and strategies to engage patients and other stakeholders in research. Panelists Shilpa Venkatachalam and Dana Goodlett discuss unique tools to support patient partner engagement in research and explore the opportunities and challenges for scaling and sustaining these types of tools. Bray Patrick-Lake moderates the session.

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HERO Data Dictionary

Use this resource to review information, content, format, and structure of the HERO (Healthcare Worker Exposure Response & Outcomes) Research database and the relationship between its elements.

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Partnerships & Infrastructure to Support Patient & Stakeholder Engagement: A Scan of PCORnet Practices

This report examines established and emerging engagement activities currently being used by PCORnet networks. Sourced from a literature and document scan and network interviews with key staff and partners, this report captures and categorizes existing engagement activities using an organizing framework to facilitate a deeper understanding of promising engagement activities and lays the foundation for future efforts to assess the quality and effectiveness of specific engagement practices.

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OneFlorida’s Citizen Scientist Program

This webinar features the OneFlorida Clinical Research Network (CRN) and their Citizen Scientist program. Through the Citizen Scientist program, community members are engaged as meaningful collaborators throughout the research process and provide feedback on research questions, study design, research materials, and other items. Organizations seeking to work with OneFlorida or establish a similar program can use this webinar as a resource.

Learn about the program here.

Access the Citizen Scientist Program and Curriculum here.

Daquery

The PaTH Clinical Research Network (CRN) Department of Bio-Medical Informatics team developed Daquery a tool used to deploy code, as well as to automate and archive network-wide Quality Assurance queries. The code is publicly available and may be useful to support other CRNs data processes.

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Patient Partner Position Description

In this document, the Research Action for Health Network (REACHnet) Clinical Research Network (CRN) describes the roles and scope of a patient-partner consultant. This resource can be used by researchers and other stakeholder groups seeking to hire or contract with a patient partner to review and evaluate projects for patient-centeredness, participate in communication initiatives, prioritize research topics, and partake in other activities to improve stakeholders’ capacity to conduct patient-centered research.

REACHnet is a Network Partner in PCORnet®, the National Patient-Centered Clinical Research Network. PCORnet has been developed with funding from PCORI.

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ADVANCE’s Patient Engagement Panel (PEP)

This webinar features the ADVANCE Clinical Research Network (CRN) and their Patient Engagement Panel (PEP). Through the PEP, patients can advise ADVANCE on network-level issues and provide input to researchers on ongoing projects. Other organizations seeking to work with ADVANCE or establish a stakeholder advisory and research review committee can use this webinar as a resource.

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