Editorial Material
Biochemical Research Methods
Vivien Marx
Summary: Everyone has their own approaches to tackling the time-consuming and difficult task of grant-writing.
Article
Surgery
Richard A. Guyer, Margaret L. Schwarze, Ankush Gosain, Melinda Maggard-Gibbons, Sundeep G. Keswani, Allan M. Goldstein
Summary: Mastering grant writing is crucial for obtaining research funding. Surgeons needing the necessary skills to write successful grant applications is essential for pursuing high-quality surgical research and supporting academic goals. The 10 strategies presented in this article aim to help surgeon-scientists compete successfully for research funding.
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Robert A. Hiatt, Yazmin P. Carrasco, Alan L. Paciorek, Lauren Kaplan, Marc B. Cox, Carlos J. Crespo, Andrew Feig, Karsten Hueffer, Harris McFerrin, Keith Norris, Elizabeth Roberts-Kirchhoff, Carrie L. Saetermoe, Gillian Beth Silver, Katherine Snyder, Arturo R. Zavala, Audrey G. Parangan-Smith
Summary: Pilot interventions in the BUILD program show promise in increasing diversity in NIH-level research. Teaching workshops, grant writing workshops, and incentives to develop courses are associated with increased research productivity.
Review
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Anne D. Grant, Katherine Swan, Ke Wu, Ruth Plenty Sweetgrass-She Kills, Salena Hill, Amy Kinch
Summary: This study shares the design and implementation of a professional development program for Native STEM faculty, which emphasizes the six R's Indigenous framework and the mutual engagement and shared responsibility of the participants. The program continuously improved through reciprocity and offers lessons on its implementation in higher education institutions.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications
Peter van den Besselaar, Charlie Mom
Summary: This paper investigates whether the writing style of grant applications affects the evaluation scores and decisions made by selection panels. The linguistic analysis reveals several characteristics that positively influence the grant applications' scores and the probability of being selected for funding. The findings suggest that reviewers consider both the scientific content and the presentation form of grant applications.
JOURNAL OF INFORMETRICS
(2022)
Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Athina Anastasaki
Summary: ERC Starting Grants are highly competitive in Europe, offering generous funding for high risk/high gain projects and providing opportunities for academic advancement. However, obtaining these grants is challenging.
ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION
(2022)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Jie Zhu, Braja Gopal Patra, Hulin Wu, Ashraf Yaseen
Summary: Research grants are crucial for academic researchers, but finding relevant grant announcements is challenging and time-consuming. To address this, we proposed a recommendation system for NIH grants using researchers' publications and deep learning techniques. Internal and external evaluations demonstrated the effectiveness of our BERT-based recommender, surpassing other baseline recommenders.
Article
Health Care Sciences & Services
Marina Christ Franco, Danielle B. Rice, Helena Silveira Schuch, Odir Antonio Dellagostin, Maximiliano Sergio Cenci, David Moher
Summary: The study found that gender does not have a significant impact on the language used by applicants, but there are subtle differences in clout between successful and unsuccessful applicants. It is worth noting that principal investigators of successful applications had a significantly higher number of published papers.
JOURNAL OF CLINICAL EPIDEMIOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Biology
Michael S. Lauer, Joy Wang, Deepshikha Roychowdhury
Summary: We analyzed changes in total costs of National Institutes of Health (NIH) awarded Research Project Grants (RPGs) from 1998 to 2021. There were changes in both nominal and real costs, with real costs showing a decrease and stability after the doubling of NIH budget. These changes in real costs are largely explained by changes in the composition of the NIH-grant portfolio.
Article
Management
Nikita Kozodoi, Johannes Jacob, Stefan Lessmann
Summary: This paper explores the implementation of fair machine learning in credit scoring, revisiting statistical fairness criteria, cataloging algorithmic options, and balancing the trade-off between profit and fairness. Empirical results show that multiple fairness criteria can be satisfied simultaneously and fair in-processors can reduce algorithmic discrimination at a reasonable cost.
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF OPERATIONAL RESEARCH
(2022)
Article
Oncology
Raymond J. Chan, Nicolas H. Hart
Summary: Nurses and allied health professionals often receive less funding compared with medical practitioners and basic scientists. This article provides top 10 tips on good grantsmanship to help clinician researchers improve their success rates in grant applications.
SEMINARS IN ONCOLOGY NURSING
(2023)
Article
Education & Educational Research
Ruibin Zhao, Yipeng Zhuang, Di Zou, Qin Xie, Philip L. H. Yu
Summary: This paper proposes a novel method for automatically scoring student responses to picture-cued writing tasks. By incorporating cross-modal matching technology and NLP algorithms, an accurate AI scoring model is developed. This method reduces the subjective elements in human grading, saves teachers' time, and promotes more valuable teaching tasks.
EDUCATION AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES
(2023)
Article
Public Administration
Iuliia Shybalkina
Summary: This study examines the link between the pace of utilizing intergovernmental grants and recipient government organizations' administrative capacity. It found that financial administrative capacity positively influences the early-stage utilization of grant funds, but the effect weakens toward the end. The findings highlight the importance of studying the implementation stage of government grant programs and investing in administrative capacity within recipient organizations.
AMERICAN REVIEW OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
(2023)
Article
Otorhinolaryngology
Kelsey M. Roman, Anh-Tram Bui, Jack Birkenbeuel, Tjoson Tjoa, Yarah M. Haidar, Edward C. Kuan
Summary: This study evaluates the gender distribution of Centralized Otolaryngology Research Efforts (CORE) grants by research subspeciality over the past decade. The results show that women have lower absolute rates of CORE funding in all fields except pediatrics, but they receive a proportional number of grants for most subspecialities based on their representation within the field.
OTOLARYNGOLOGY-HEAD AND NECK SURGERY
(2022)
Article
Rehabilitation
Prateek Grover, Oksana Volshteyn, David B. Carr
Summary: A study was conducted to design, develop, implement, and evaluate a structured Quality Improvement and Research Curriculum for a physical medicine and rehabilitation residency program. Success factors included phased implementation, dedicated teams, scope clarity, accessible resources, personnel support, resident champions, and faculty mentorship.
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL MEDICINE & REHABILITATION
(2021)
Review
Health Care Sciences & Services
Erika L. Crable, Dea L. Biancarelli, Marisa Aurora, Mari-Lynn Drainoni, Allan J. Walkey
Summary: Missed appointments are a persistent problem in healthcare, leading to negative outcomes. This study reviewed interventions to reduce missed appointments in safety net settings, finding that current strategies vary widely in effectiveness and no single intervention stands out as clearly superior. Further research on harmonizing intervention delivery and comparing strategies is needed.
JOURNAL OF EVALUATION IN CLINICAL PRACTICE
(2021)
Article
Immunology
Erika L. Crable, Thomas R. Blue, Michelle McKenzie, Josiah D. Rich, Michael S. Gordon
Summary: While there were no statistically significant differences in HIV treatment engagement, antiretroviral therapy prescription receipt, or adherence between the Project Bridge and treatment as usual groups, overall participants were more likely to receive HIV care, antiretroviral therapy prescription, and report adherence at each follow-up period. Future research is needed to explore less-intensive interventions targeting the unique needs of people living with HIV under community supervision.
JAIDS-JOURNAL OF ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROMES
(2021)
Review
Radiology, Nuclear Medicine & Medical Imaging
Erika L. Crable, Timothy Feeney, Joshua Harvey, Valerie Grim, Mari-Lynn Drainoni, Allan J. Walkey, Katrina Steiling, Frederick Thurston Drake
Summary: The study identified four types of interventions aimed at promoting guideline-concordant follow-up care for incidentalomas, with most management strategies targeting changes in radiologists' behavior. However, few studies address barriers to improving incidentaloma follow-up from interpretation to patient education and care delivery. Hybrid effectiveness-implementation studies are needed to better address workflow barriers and rigorously evaluate care delivery outcomes.
JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF RADIOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Substance Abuse
Kevin N. Griffith, Yevgeniy Feyman, Samantha G. Auty, Erika L. Crable, Timothy W. Levengood
Summary: The study revealed significant geographic variations in the distribution of prescription opioids in the United States, driven by differences in demographics, healthcare access, and healthcare supply. Results showed that an increase of one pill per capita was associated with a 0.20 increase in opioid-related deaths per 100,000 population. Early state Medicaid expansions were found to be associated with a reduction in opioid pill volume.
DRUG AND ALCOHOL DEPENDENCE
(2021)
Letter
Radiology, Nuclear Medicine & Medical Imaging
Erika L. Crable, Timothy Feeney, Joshua Harvey, Valerie Grim, Mari-Lynn Drainoni, Allan J. Walkey, Katrina Steiling, Frederick Thurston Drake
JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF RADIOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Health Care Sciences & Services
Erika L. Crable, Allyn Benintendi, David K. Jones, Alexander Y. Walley, Jacqueline Milton Hicks, Mari-Lynn Drainoni
Summary: This study examines the policy implementation strategies and experiences of Medicaid programs in three US states that responded to a federal prompt to improve access to evidence-based practice (EBP) substance use disorder (SUD) treatment. The study found that successful policy adoption at the state level did not guarantee service providers' uptake of EBPs, highlighting the need for additional implementation strategies.
IMPLEMENTATION SCIENCE
(2022)
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Daniel J. Livorsi, Mari-Lynn Drainoni, Heather Schacht Reisinger, Neha Nanda, Jessina C. McGregor, Tamar F. Barlam, Andrew M. Morris, Julia E. Szymczak
INFECTION CONTROL AND HOSPITAL EPIDEMIOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Clinical
Erika L. Crable, Mari-Lynn Drainoni, David K. Jones, Alexander Y. Walley, Jacqueline Milton Hicks
Summary: This study examined the longitudinal treatment seeking behaviors of individuals with diagnosed SUDs and identified five distinct service use classes. The results indicated that being female and an older adult were predictors for receiving treatment services, while black patients had increased odds for substance use service and primary care service statuses over time. The use of LCA and LTA methods proved beneficial in identifying profiles of patients at higher risk for health services disengagement.
JOURNAL OF SUBSTANCE ABUSE TREATMENT
(2022)
Review
Medicine, General & Internal
Clare E. Ronan, Erika L. Crable, Mari-Lynn Drainoni, Allan J. Walkey
Summary: This study found that CDSS did not significantly increase clinician adoption of desired practices from 2000-2021, but CDSS studies from 2016-2021 were associated with an increase in targeted practices compared to earlier years. The meta-analysis did not show an overall positive impact of CDSS on clinician behavior in the inpatient setting.
JOURNAL OF HOSPITAL MEDICINE
(2022)
Article
Health Care Sciences & Services
Erika L. Crable, Rebecca Lengnick-Hall, Nicole A. Stadnick, Joanna C. Moullin, Gregory A. Aarons
Summary: This study emphasizes the importance of studying the role of health policy in implementation science and suggests six recommendations to optimize existing theoretical models. It highlights the need for researchers to investigate the multifaceted roles policy can play in dissemination and implementation efforts.
IMPLEMENTATION SCIENCE
(2022)
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Maria Tjilos, Mari-Lynn Drainoni, Shana A. B. Burrowes, Jorie M. Butler, Laura J. Damschroder, Matthew Bidwell Goetz, Karl Madaras-Kelly, Caitlin M. Reardon, Matthew H. Samore, Jincheng Shen, Edward A. Stenehjem, Yue Zhang, Tamar F. Barlam
Summary: This study examined the perspectives of non-steward clinicians who interact with antibiotic stewardship programs (ASPs) in their role as frontline healthcare workers. The analysis identified four primary perspectives regarding ASPs: non-ASP pharmacists considered ASP activities a high priority; nurses acknowledged limited understanding and involvement with ASPs; physicians criticized ASPs for their restrictions on clinical autonomy; and hospital leaders expressed support for ASPs and recognized the challenges faced by non-ASP clinical staff.
INFECTION CONTROL AND HOSPITAL EPIDEMIOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Alison L. Nelson, Jacqueline Steiner, Diane Hanley, Tamar F. Barlam, Mari-Lynn Drainoni, Shana A. B. Burrowes, Cassandra M. Pierre
Summary: Infection preventionist (IP) positions are challenging to fill and future shortages are expected. The IP field lacks racial and ethnic diversity compared to the general nursing workforce and patient population. A fellowship program targeting underrepresented groups facilitated IP recruitment and training, thereby avoiding staffing shortages.
INFECTION CONTROL AND HOSPITAL EPIDEMIOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Endocrinology & Metabolism
Kathryn L. Fantasia, Mary-Catherine Stockman, Zhihui Ju, Paola Ortega, Erika L. Crable, Mari-Lynn Drainoni, Allan J. Walkey, Megan Bergstrom, Katelyn O'Brien, Devin Steenkamp
Summary: This study evaluated the feasibility and clinical outcomes of CGM-enhanced eConsult for patients with type 2 diabetes managed by primary care clinical pharmacists, compared to routine in-person endocrinology consultation. Results showed that CGM-enhanced eConsult provided more timely access to endocrinology expertise, was acceptable to patients, and yielded similar short-term glycemic outcomes. Further exploration of the effectiveness of CGM-enhanced eConsults is warranted.
JOURNAL OF CLINICAL AND TRANSLATIONAL ENDOCRINOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Kevin N. Griffith, Yevgeniy Feyman, Samantha G. Auty, Erika L. Crable, Timothy W. Levengood
Summary: This dataset combines various U.S. federal data resources from 2006 to 2013, providing county-level variables for opioid pill volumes, demographics, healthcare demand, infrastructure, and supply of healthcare providers. The data is intended to assist researchers in predicting factors related to opioid pill volume and its association with opioid-related mortality. It is believed that this dataset can be leveraged by scholars, policymakers, and data journalists interested in studying the opioid epidemic.