An interventional study of Extensive Consultations in Career Development Grant Outcomes, sponsored by University of California, San Francisco. Completed at 1 site in United States. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2018-10-11.
Sponsored by University of California, San Francisco · Not applicable, Interventional, and Other
In this study we wish is to determine whether extensive (up to 15 hours) multidisciplinary consultation in biostatistics, study design, data management, ethics, and writing provided by the UCSF Clinical and Translational Science Institute's (CTSI) Consultation Services program, improves peer review scores of career development grants compared to usual levels of consultation.
We hypothesize that extensive multidisciplinary consultation will improve peer review scores of career development grants compared to usual levels of consultation.
We hypothesize that extensive multidisciplinary consultation will lead to greater numbers of funded grants when compared to the usual levels of consultation.
CTSI Consultation Services is one of the largest programs within the UCSF CTSI. It was created to improve the quality and efficiency of clinical and translational research through the provision of expert consultation. The program is divided into units that provide access to expert consultants in biostatistics, research design (with consultants representing multiple distinct methodologies and disease interests), data management (including data structure and database design), ethics, and scientific writing. With funding from the NIH, the program is able to offer a free hour of consultation in each of its units (up to 4 hours) but charges for additional services to cover costs.
There have been no studies of research consultation services. Though the benefit may seem self evident, such programs are expensive and distract senior researcher from more creative work. Justifying research consultation is important given the multitude of activities vying for attention and funding. Observational studies of the impact of research consultation services will always be limited by confounding, particularly confounding by indication since those seeking such services may be more highly motivated and organized. Thus, a randomized trial is warranted.
University of California, San Francisco is the lead sponsor of 2,132 studies on the registry; 375 are open to participants now.
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Inclusion Criteria:
Recognized potential benefit from additional consultation
Intervention- Receives extensive consulting services
Other: Extensive Consultations
Control - Receives regular levels of service; one hour free services from each of the 4 units, with option to pay for more.
receives 15 free hours of multidisciplinary consultations towards the preparation of their career development grant.
Also known as: Consultations, Extensive Multi-disciplinary Consultations
NIH priority score of the reviewed proposal, with unsubmitted or unscored proposals counted as priority scores that are right-censored at 300 (old system) or 50 (new system)
Time frame: 30 Months
Percentage of subjects who obtain funding for the submitted proposal
Time frame: 30 Months
Institute-specific percentile of the priority score
Time frame: 30 Months
Percentage of subjects who submit proposals for funding
Time frame: 30 Months
Percentage of subjects who received a good score (<40 or <200) which may be associated with future funding of a resubmission
Time frame: 30 Months
Percentage of subjects who obtained any career development award funding
Time frame: 30 Months
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