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Objective:In order to reduce the transactional burden of scientific researchers and ensure the researchers concentrate on their scientific research, the hospital implemented the whole-process management and optimization of the scientific research approval process based on the DingTalk platform to improve the efficiency of scientific research.Methods:We sorted out the list of routine work in the implementation of scientific research projects and analyzed the key points affecting the efficiency of scientific research management, specifically the processes of reimbursement of scientific research funds, budget adjustment, paper submission approval, and research drug application, then we developed corresponding modules on the DingTalk platform.Results:In 2021, the hospital approved 3 214 scientific research funding reimbursements, including 1 917 approvals below 5 000 yuan, with a median approval time of 19 (5~28) hours, 1 297 approvals above 5 000 yuan, with a median approval time of 26 (10~50) hours. In addition, 17 budget adjustments, 456 paper submissions, and 31 research drug applications were approved on the DingTalk platform, resulting in a smooth overall approval process, saving the time costs of medical staff and improving work efficiency.Conclusions:The scientific research approval management based on this platform realizes the concept of refined management, which can meet the needs of the normalization of epidemic prevention and control and effectively promote the high-quality development of hospital scientific research management.
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Objective:This study aims to explore the possible development path of hospital research assistants in China based on the cognition of the demand and management status quo from research management personnel in tertiary hospitals.Methods:62 scientific research management personnel from all over the country were surveyed, data about their cognition and the current status of scientific research assistants, that including the willingness of employ, position cognition, eligibility and competence, quantity and efficiency, management implementation, influencing factors and difficulties in team development, were collected and analyzed. Regarding to the practical needs and management status, the results were described by frequency, percentage and average score, and the rank sum test was used to verify whether there was any difference in the employment intention between the management department and the project team in the cognition of the survey subjects.Results:From the perspective of scientific research managers, there is a strong willingness at hospital level to employ the research assistant, positions require applicants with bachelor′s degree or above in medicine or other related majors. The most urgent needs are management of project funds, equipment and consumables, research integrity and ethics.The interviewees who work with research assistants think that the effect of research assistants on improving scientific research efficiency is obvious.However, the percentage of formulation of research assistants management measures is less than 40%, and the percentages of uniformly organized training and assessment are relatively low. There are still problems and challenges, such as incomplete cognition of the positioning and function, incomplete functional and vocational system, imperfect incentive mechanism and insufficient support for ability cultivation and improvement.Conclusions:It′s necessary to strengthen the top-down design of the development of scientific research assistant team and the construction of career system, improve the management basis and implementation mechanism, supporting resources should be in place, and promote capacity building system in order to develop a long-term mechanism of mutual promotion between the team building of scientific research assistants and the innovation of hospital scientific research management.
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As an important element of medical and health sector innovation, the translation of scientific and technological achievements plays a key role in promoting their clinical application and meeting the medical needs of the people. The authors sorted out the problems in such translation at these affiliated hospitals in terms of " people", " finance", " material", and " system". Starting from 2017, the Tenth People′s Hospital Affiliated to Tongji University has explored such practices as establishing hospital-led clinical medical science and technology innovation parks and technology service limited companies. These practices aimed to address the issues of insufficient hospital scientific and technological innovation capabilities and the gap between the hospital′s operation mechanism to translate its scientific and technological achievements and the enterprises and the market. The clinical medical science and technology innovation park integrating administration, industry, education, research, medicine and application, has taken multiple measures to attract excellent research talents and projects from within and beyond the hospital, promote the implementation of innovative scientific research projects. The hospital also established a health industry mode with engagement of social capital from large enterprises. The Technology Services Co., Ltd. was based on the incubation and translation of hospital achievements, combining market and clinical needs, promoting multi-party cooperation between hospitals and external enterprises, improving the chain operation mechanism of hospital scientific and technological achievements translation work, and alleviating the problem of insufficient research pilot funds and productibility funds by means of hospital-led fundraising. The number of patent authorizations of hospitals had increased from 23 cases in 2018 to 105 in 2022, and the amount of patent conversion had increased from 2 million yuan in 2020 to 11 million yuan in 2022. It is recommended that affiliated hospitals of universities further improve the organizational structure of achievement translation, strengthen their professional talent teams, improve their operation mechanism of achievement translation, build a platform for medical school-enterprise cooperation, and improve the evaluation mechanism of translation assessment, in order to promote a virtuous cycle of hospital′s scientific and technological achievement translation work.
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Objective:This study aims to investigate how hospital libraries can leverage their institutional repositories to enhance the quality of nursing research by providing tailored subject services.Methods:We analyzed the various modules and functionalities of institutional repositories, drawing insights from practical experiences. From this, we developed a model that enables hospital libraries to offer precise subject services to nursing management departments and nursing researchers.Results:Utilizing the institutional repository, libraries were able to provide detailed profiles of nursing research activities to research management departments for more refined management. We established precise, tiered subject services, including the collection of nursing research literature, targeted training, and additional research support services. These measures significantly enhanced the research capabilities of nursing staff.Conclusions:Adapting to the needs of our readers, the application of the institutional repository has broadened the scope of subject services, bolstered their effectiveness, and contributed to the high-quality progression of nursing research management in hospitals.
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Objective:Taking the research field of pulmonary infection as an example, this study analyzed the core author institutions, research hotspots and burst keywords, and explored the application value of scientific knowledge graph in the first step of scientific research management-optimization of scientific research project selection.Methods:" Pulmonary infection" or " pneumonia" were used as key words in CNKI data base from 2014 to 2020, and medical science was selected as the discipline. Cite Space was used to generate the visual graph to analyze publishing institutions, keyword co-occurrence, topic clustering, and timeline burst keywords.Results:13 169 documents were retrieved, and 4 of the top 5 institutions were in Henan Province. In 2020, " Novel Coronavirus" and " Novel Coronavirus pneumonia" were the new hotspot words. " Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease " , " blood gas index" , " inflammatory factor" , and " vitamin A" were the burst keywords in 2018.Conclusions:Scientific knowledge graph is objective, scientific, and efficient in the development of science. It has certain feasibility in the optimization of project selection in scientific research work, and can also be used as a reference basis for experts to evaluate the project reasonability, so as to ensure objectivity and equity. This study also provides reference for scientific research management strategy, reduces research funding costs, and improves the efficiency and capacity of scientific research management.
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Objective:To analyze the situation of recent ten-year publications in Chinese hospital libraries, providing advice for the development and innovation of hospital libraries and the help to improvement of scientific research management.Methods:Publications in databases including CNKI, Wanfang, VIP were retrieved when " hospital library" is included as a key topic. The general information of the enrolled publications was statistically described. With respect to the key words with high frequency, co-word analysis and cluster analysis were performed to explore the research hotspots in hospital libraries.Results:The number of publications in Chinese hospital libraries shows an overall downward trend. By contrast, the total numbers of publications in hospital libraries from Shandong and Guangzhou rank top. In terms of the ratio of total number of publications to total number of hospitals, Liaoning and Chongqing rank top. The periodicals of interest are mainly grouped into three categories including intelligence information, library and hospital management; however, the cooperation with clinical or other departments should be strengthened. Discipline and personalized service, digital library and library innovation are the dominating research hotspots in hospital libraries from China. Studies of hospital library mainly focused on clinical and scientific research services, but paid less attention to the support to hospital scientific research management.Conclusions:The service of hospital library is involved in the whole process of scientific research management. To improve the role of hospital library in scientific management, embedded service is recommended to be applied into the whole process of hospital scientific research management; construction of institutional repository for scientific research management and transformation of the role of hospital library are also highly recommended.
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Objective:To explore the countermeasures to strengthen hospital scientific research management and prevent research misconduct by studying the characteristics of research misconduct cases investigated by the NSFC in recent three years.Methods:Information of a total number of 67 research misconduct cases in 6 batches that publicly reported by the NSFC from 2019 to 2021 were collected, classified statistics were conducted on the situation of the supporting units involved, the specific issues of Misconduct and the disciplinary measures of the NSFC. According to the frequency proportion of misconduct problems, the tendency characteristics and reasons were analyzed and summarized, countermeasures and suggestions were put forward.Results:96.36% of the main responsibility entity of research misconduct was individuals, and 3.63% of the main responsibility of relying institution. There were 62 cases of research misconduct due to scientific papers and applications, accounted for 92.50%. Among the problematic papers involved, data fraud accounted for 48.20%, false signature or unauthorized signature accounted for 35.97%, plagiarism accounted for 32.37%, and unauthorized marking of other people′s fund number accounted for 27.33%. The NSFC revoked 55 fund projects involved and recovered funds, 67 people were disqualified from applying for projects with a maximum of 7 years and a minimum of 2 years, and 2 peer-review experts were punished.Conclusion:Hospital scientific research management should draw lessons from others, and put forward specific countermeasures from the aspects of strengthening scientific research integrity education, improving the construction of supervision mechanism, strictly implementing process management and perfecting scientific research credit evaluation system, in order to provide possible reference for preventing misconduct in hospital scientific research management practice.
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Objective:By optimizing the fund management mode, a scientific research management platform with high efficiency can be created, which can innovate the vitality of scientific research and improve the level of scientific research management.Methods:Applying the scientific research fund management model based on information platform interconnects each system and forms a new fund management model.Results:The fund management mode based on the information platform standardizes the business process, reduces the risk of internal control and facilitates the scientific researchers and financial personnel to control and manage the quality of scientific research.Conclusions:The fund management mode based on the information platform achieves the management goals of improving work efficiency, standardizing business process, strengthening internal control and innovating scientific research vitality by integrating system resources and business process.
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Objective:Delphi method and weighted average method are used to establish the evaluation index system of basic and clinical scientific research projects respectively, to provide support for screening high-quality projects, to avoid the disadvantages of " one size fits all" , and promote the transformation of project management from quantity and restatement to quality and results, in order to release the innovative vitality of talents and produce more high-quality results.Methods:Using the methods of literature review and expert interview, form the questionnaire of evaluation indicators for the conclusion of basic and clinical scientific research projects, then carry out two rounds of expert consultation with Delphi method, evaluate the authority of experts with authority coefficient, form the second round of questionnaire after analysis and discussion according to the results from the first round of expert consultation, screen and determine the evaluation indicators again in the same way. After two rounds of discussion, the evaluation index system of basic and clinical scientific research projects was developed, and the weighted average method and product method were used to calculate the weight and combination weight.Results:After two rounds of consultation, the evaluation index system for the conclusion of basic scientific research projects was finally established, with 2 first-class indicators, 12 second-class indicators and 33 third-class indicators, and the evaluation index system for the conclusion of clinical scientific research projects had 2 first-class indicators, 10 second-class indicators and 33 third-class indicators. In the second round, the authority coefficient of basic and clinical experts was 0.8, indicating that the authority of experts in this study was high. 29 basic and clinical projects concluded from 2018 to 2020 were selected to verify the index system.Conclusions:The index system formed in this study will be used to classify and evaluate the conclusion evaluation of basic scientific research projects and clinical scientific research projects. In the next step, the weight of the index system will be adjusted to make it more realistic and highlight high-quality achievements, guide the project leader to pay more attention to quality and results, and conduct follow-up evaluation at different stages.
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Scientific and reasonable management methods of research expenditure can promote the standardized and orderly development of research work and improve the fund use efficiency. A hospital analyzed the main problems in the management of such expenditure, and began to practice such management based on problems since 2019. By improving the internal control mechanism in terms of the system and process, the hospital took multiple measures to simplify the reimbursement formalities of researchers, dynamically manage the whole process of scientific research projects, and adopted the fund pool management method to allocate hospital′s supporting funds in batches. These measures effectively resolved the main problems and raised the efficiency of fund use.