Expanding Assessments of Translational Research Programs: Supplementing Metrics With Value Judgments. (March 2014)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Scott, Craig S.; Nagasawa, Pamela R.; Abernethy, Neil F.; Ramsey, Bonnie W.; Martin, Paul J.; Hacker, Beth M.; Schwartz, Havivah D.; Brock, Douglas M.; Robins, Lynn S.; Wolf, Fred M.; Carter-Dubois, Marie; Disis, Mary L.
• Other Names: Mazmanian Paul E. guest-editor.
• Is Part Of: Evaluation & the health professions. Volume 37:Number 1(2014:Mar.)
• Page Start: 83
• Page End: 97
• Publication Date: 2014-03
• Subjects: translational science -- logic models -- health research -- CTSA program evaluation -- WHO evaluative elements -- WHO Health Services Assessment Model; Medical care -- Evaluation -- Periodicals; Medicine -- Ability testing -- Periodicals; 362.105
• DOI: 10.1177/0163278713500984
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0163-2787

Abstract

The University of Washington (UW) Institute for Translational Health Sciences (ITHS), funded by a Clinical and Translational Sciences Award program, has supplemented its initial Kellogg Logic Model–based program evaluation with the eight judgment-based evaluative elements of the World Health Organization's (WHO) Health Services Assessment Model. This article describes the relationship between the two models, the rationale for the decision to supplement the evaluation with WHO evaluative elements, the value-added results of the WHO evaluative elements, and plans for further developing the WHO assessments.