Making Pragmatic Trials Pragmatic in Post-acute and Long-term Care Settings

The paper intriguingly titled “The Answer Is 17 Years, What Is the Question: Understanding Time Lags in Translational Research” affirms that the path from basic research, to human research, to clinical research, to guidelines, and eventually to practice, is roughly a 17-year journey1—for those few research discoveries tha t even make it to the finish line. It's no surprise, then, that the National Institutes of Health promote the NIH Stage Model to guide research from stage 0 (basic research) through stage V (implementation and dissemination), a critical step being stage IV (effectiveness), during which pragmatic tri als are implemented and evaluated.

Source: Journal of the American Medical Directors Association - January 26, 2019 Category: Health Management Authors: Sheryl Zimmerman, Philip D. Sloane Tags: Editorial Source Type: research