TY - JOUR
T1 - The Canadian Consortium for Research in Pediatric Surgery
T2 - Roadmap for Creation and Implementation of a National Subspecialty Research Consortium
AU - Canadian Consortium for Research in Pediatric Surgery (CanCORPS)
AU - Emil, Sherif
AU - Guadagno, Elena
AU - Baird, Robert
AU - Puligandla, Pramod
AU - Romao, Rodrigo
AU - Van HouWelingen, Lisa
AU - Yanchar, Natalie L.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
Copyright © 2022 The Author(s). Published by Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. on behalf of the American College of Surgeons.
PY - 2022/12/1
Y1 - 2022/12/1
N2 - Clinical practice should be driven by high-quality research that produces evidence to inform best practices. Generation of such evidence is often challenging, particularly for smaller specialties, such as pediatric surgery, that treat many patients with rare diseases. Multi-institutional collaboration is seen as a major strategy to address these challenges. We have recently created the Canadian Consortium for Research in Pediatric Surgery, a national consortium that includes all major pediatric surgical services across Canada. The mission of the Consortium is to improve pediatric surgical care through high-quality collaborative research. In this article, we describe the rationale and methodology for creation of the Canadian Consortium for Research in Pediatric Surgery, demonstrate its achievements to date, and share a number of foundational concepts that are integral to its success. Our aim is to provide a model for creation of such consortia, ultimately leading to improvements in the quality of clinical research and patient care.
AB - Clinical practice should be driven by high-quality research that produces evidence to inform best practices. Generation of such evidence is often challenging, particularly for smaller specialties, such as pediatric surgery, that treat many patients with rare diseases. Multi-institutional collaboration is seen as a major strategy to address these challenges. We have recently created the Canadian Consortium for Research in Pediatric Surgery, a national consortium that includes all major pediatric surgical services across Canada. The mission of the Consortium is to improve pediatric surgical care through high-quality collaborative research. In this article, we describe the rationale and methodology for creation of the Canadian Consortium for Research in Pediatric Surgery, demonstrate its achievements to date, and share a number of foundational concepts that are integral to its success. Our aim is to provide a model for creation of such consortia, ultimately leading to improvements in the quality of clinical research and patient care.
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U2 - 10.1097/XCS.0000000000000396
DO - 10.1097/XCS.0000000000000396
M3 - Article
C2 - 36102499
AN - SCOPUS:85142401111
SN - 1072-7515
VL - 235
SP - 952
EP - 961
JO - Journal of the American College of Surgeons
JF - Journal of the American College of Surgeons
IS - 6
ER -