Table 3.
Key recommendations emerging from the workshop
| Integrate IR with respiratory, sleep, and critical care medicine research |
| Identify priority research areas |
| Work to adopt the nomenclature that is recognized by the field of IR |
| Determine how existing research infrastructure or changes to such infrastructure will facilitate IR |
| Design and conduct IR |
| Identify relevant study designs beyond randomized clinical trials |
| Define appropriate control groups for IR and establish whether “usual care” is acceptable |
| Establish how to identify and engage stakeholders, including those who are not part of the health care “system” |
| Define elements within IR that can be adapted to leverage technology to increase dissemination |
| Establish how to measure adaptability |
| Determine how to prepare funding organizations or monitoring boards to provide an informative review |
| Consider methods to enhance staff participation and motivation to minimize turnover |
| Measure outcomes in IR |
| Identify appropriate outcomes for IR |
| Define the metrics of success for IR |
| Establish the appropriate time interval and methodology to measure sustainability |
| Train investigators |
| Build a collaboration to address training guidelines (establish a curriculum) for students or junior investigators who wish to become engaged in IR |
| Create programs and opportunities for established lung researchers to learn about IR |
| Scale up interventions across multiple settings |
| Identify study champions at each setting |
| Emphasize simplicity when proposing integration across multiple care settings |
| Distinguish between evidence-based care and IR |
| Implement and leverage supports for respiratory, critical care, and sleep IR |
| Develop an ATS “home” for investigators and members to coordinate and maintain communication between various groups conducting IR |
| Learn about the Center for Translation Research and Implementation Science (CTRIS) at NIH/NHLBI |
Definition of abbreviations: ATS = American Thoracic Society; IR = implementation research; NHLBI = National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute; NIH = National Institutes of Health.