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Published in final edited form as: Eval Health Prof. 2013 Aug 19;36(4):432–446. doi: 10.1177/0163278713499586

Table 1.

Fifteen Metrics Developed by the Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) Consortium to Assess the Efficiency of Clinical Research

Category	Metric
Clinical research processes	1. Time from institutional review board (IRB) submission to approval
	2. Studies meeting accrual goals
	3. Time from notice of grant award to study opening
Careers (how well investigators are trained in clinical research)	4. Career development
	5. Career trajectory
Services used at the institution	6. Volume of investigators who used services
	7. Volume of types of services used
	8. Satisfaction/needs assessment
Economic return	9. Leveraging/return on investment (ROI) of pilot studies and KL2 scholars
Collaboration	10. Researcher collaboration
Collaboration	11. Institutional collaboration
Products	12. Number of technology transfer products
	13. Time to publication
	14. Influence of research publication
	15. Time from publication to research synthesis