Table 4.

Financial and staff support for research

	All	Academic	Non-academic	P
Funding sources for research, total responses	n = 27	n = 21	n = 6
Internal	27 (100%)	21 (100%)	6 (100%)	–
External governmental or non-profit grants	17 (63%)	16 (76%)	1 (17%)	0.02
Corporate/private sponsorship	8 (30%)	6 (29%)	2 (33%)	1.00
Compensation for trauma medical director, total responses	n = 14	n = 11	n = 3
Financial compensation for research activities (e.g., conference attendance)	10 (71%)	7 (63%)	3 (100%)	0.51
Dedicated time for research	6 (43%)	5 (45%)	1 (33%)	1.00
Financial compensation for dedicated research time	1 (7%)	1 (9%)	0 (0%)	1.00
Available personnel for research, total responses	n = 26	n = 20	n = 6
Clinical research coordinators or study coordinators	19 (73%)	14 (70%)	5 (83%)	1.00
Student employees or volunteers	17 (65%)	14 (70%)	3 (50%)	0.63
Biostatisticians	16 (62%)	13 (65%)	3 (50%)	0.64
Institutional Review Board coordinator	13 (50%)	10 (50%)	3 (50%)	1.00
Epidemiologists	9 (35%)	7 (35%)	2 (33%)	1.00
Basic scientists	8 (31%)	7 (35%)	1 (17%)	0.63
Dedicated workspace for study staff and/or data abstraction	8 (31%)	6 (30%)	2 (33%)	1.00
Dedicated laboratory for basic science research	6 (23%)	5 (25%)	1 (17%)	1.00
Grant writers	4 (15%)	3 (15%)	1 (17%)	1.00
Research staff and workspace provided by, total responses	n = 27	n = 21	n = 6
Hospital	23 (85%)	17 (81%)	6 (100%)	0.55
Hospital-affiliated university	9 (33%)	9 (43%)	0 (0%)	0.07
External research partner (e.g., independent research company)	6 (22%)	4 (19%)	2 (33%)	0.59
Presence of dedicated research staff (i.e., staff with no hospital administrative tasks or patient care), total responses	n = 27	n = 21	n = 6	0.66
n (%)	15 (56%)	11 (52%)	4 (67%)

Bolding of P values indicates statistical significance at a threshold of P ≤ 0.05