South, Annabelle;
Torras, Berta Terre;
Rush, Hannah;
Goodman, Anna;
Love, Sharon;
(2025)
Developing a knowledge transfer and exchange strategy for a clinical trials unit.
Trials
, 26
(1)
, Article 3. 10.1186/s13063-024-08681-x.
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Abstract
Need for a strategic approach to knowledge transfer and exchange: Late-phase clinical trials and systematic reviews find results that have the potential to improve health outcomes for people. However, there are often delays in these results influencing clinical practice. We developed a knowledge transfer and exchange strategy to support research teams, aiming to identify activities along the research process to maximise and accelerate the research impact. Our knowledge transfer and exchange strategy: The strategy has five strands of activity across the life-course of our research: 1. Partnerships with external stakeholders (including patient and public involvement, charities, policymakers, healthcare professionals, professional bodies, regulators and industry) 2. Communication (including the development of research impact strategies and use of communication tools and channels) 3. Maximising the scientific value of our studies (including open access, data and sample sharing, and incorporating multi-disciplinary components within studies) 4. Strengthening capacity (including building internal and partner capacity to communicate effectively, and strengthening the capacity of external stakeholders to understand and apply our research). 5. Learning and sharing (evaluating the impact of research, sharing lessons learnt internally and externally) The strategy has helped trial teams think systematically about impact and was easy to use. Conclusions: Our strategy helps researchers systematically identify activities which may improve the usefulness and uptake of their study results. While developed in a single trials unit, we think it may be of use to others.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | Developing a knowledge transfer and exchange strategy for a clinical trials unit |
| Location: | England |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1186/s13063-024-08681-x |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1186/s13063-024-08681-x |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. |
| Keywords: | Impact, Knowledge transfer and exchange, Strategy, Communication, Clinical trials |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > Inst of Clinical Trials and Methodology UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > Inst of Clinical Trials and Methodology > MRC Clinical Trials Unit at UCL |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10207177 |
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