Research consultation clinic: impetus towards facilitating primary care research.

Q1 Medicine Asia Pacific Family Medicine Pub Date : 2013-09-16 DOI:10.1186/1447-056X-12-4
Ngiap Chuan Tan, Yang Thong Tan, Patricia T Kin
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Background: In Singapore, SingHealth Polyclinics (SHP) is an accredited Family Medicine (FM) training centre which managed 1.8 million primary care patient-visits in 2012. To promote research in the institution, research consultation clinics (RCC) are being introduced in 2010 to enable free face-to-face consultation between experienced and novice researchers on specific research topics. Each RCC session allows about an hour or more for the SHP staff, medical undergraduates and general practitioners to seek advice and clarification on key research areas, ranging from research question refinement, study design and execution, data analysis, result presentation to publication. The consultants comprise of two FM researchers with postgraduate research qualification.

Aim: This article aims to review the implementation of RCC from 2010 to 2012 and its impact on research activities and outcome indicators in the same period of time.

Methods: The study comprised of two segments. Part I was a three-year retrospective review of the RCC administrative record. The total number of RCC sessions, hours utilised, participants' profiles, the number of research studies initiated by them and their research presentations at local and overseas scientific meetings/conferences were computed. Part 2 was an anonymous web-based questionnaire survey fielded to RCC participants to collect their feedback on the RCC service and their self-reported initiation and completion of research study after the RCC consultation.

Results: The RCC sessions increased from 17 to 40 sessions, resulting in increment of 2 to 14 research presentations and from 2 to 6 initiations of new research studies per annum from 2010-2012. The response rate to the questionnaire survey was 70.3%, with the majority of multi-disciplinary respondents rated the RCC service to be accessible, adequate and were satisfied with its quality. Study design, data management and study execution were ranked as important areas of research for consultation. 79% of them had started a research project and 36% had completed their studies.

Conclusions: The RCC is a feasible model to catalyse multi-disciplinary research in primary care institutions. Further study is needed to evaluate its relevance when research advances and novice researchers become experienced investigators to take on more complex projects.

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研究咨询诊所:促进初级保健研究的动力。
背景:在新加坡,新健康综合诊所(SHP)是一家经过认证的家庭医学(FM)培训中心,2012年管理了180万名初级保健患者。为了促进研究所的研究,研究咨询诊所于2010年成立,让有经验的和新入行的研究人员就特定的研究课题进行免费的面对面咨询。每次RCC会议允许SHP员工,医学本科生和全科医生在关键研究领域寻求建议和澄清,从研究问题的改进,研究设计和执行,数据分析,结果展示到发表。顾问包括两名具有研究生研究资格的FM研究人员。目的:本文旨在回顾2010 - 2012年RCC的实施情况及其对同期研究活动和成果指标的影响。方法:研究分为两部分。第一部分是对RCC行政记录的三年回顾性审查。计算研究小组的会期总数、使用时数、参加者简介、他们进行的研究项目数目,以及他们在本地及海外科学会议上的研究报告。第二部分是对RCC参与者进行匿名网络问卷调查,收集他们对RCC服务的反馈,以及他们在RCC咨询后开始和完成研究的自我报告。结果:2010-2012年,RCC会议从17次增加到40次,每年的研究报告从2次增加到14次,新研究的启动从2次增加到6次。问卷调查的回应率为70.3%,大多数多学科的受访者认为RCC的服务是无障碍的,足够的,并对其质量感到满意。研究设计、数据管理和研究执行被列为咨询研究的重要领域。其中79%的学生已经开始研究项目,36%的学生已经完成学业。结论:RCC是促进基层医疗机构多学科研究的可行模式。当研究取得进展,新手研究人员成为有经验的研究人员承担更复杂的项目时,需要进一步的研究来评估其相关性。
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