Winter's Research Roundup

keywords:  research literacy, metrics, research writing resources, and more resources shared since last "research roundup" blog article

Review of the "Research and Metrics Thursdays" theme from the public Facebook Page and newsletter

At the Hospital Practice Handbook Project, we encourage practitioners to cultivate mentor-relationships and practice research literacy.

SAR 2019 Conference Notes, Published Articles, and Highlights
For a compilation of the community's notes on SAR and the articles (or their citations) written about the SAR 2019 conference since June 2019, go to our Conference Notes module.

Interested in Measuring Your Work?

• Current Clinical Outcome Metrics Short Courses Available from the HH Project
• How to Use a Validated Pain Scale in Your Chart Note
• Calculate Morphine Equivalent Dose: Medication Review Standard for Non-prescriber
• Metrics & Performance Management
• Episode 2, "Know How You Are Being Measured as a Clinician: Performance Plans & Employee Evaluations", part of the Basics of Being an Employee Interview Series.
• This episode is still open to sponsorship (as of 3.10.2020) if you or your organization would like to sponsor it, go here.
• Learn more about the importance of metrics in your work by following the Hospital Handbook Project. We are currently tagging blog posts related to metrics with "metrics". You can use the search feature in the blog and type in "metrics" to find related posts.

New Acupuncture Research shares since last blog article

• John Weeks. "Society for Acupuncture Research 2019: Putting the Whole Acupuncturist Back Together Again--To Set Them to Work!" The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine (JACM). Aug 2019 ahead of print. https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/acm.2019.29073.jjw
• Hugh MacPherson. "Why Acupuncture Is More Than Just Needling, and the Implications for Research. JACM. Sep 2019 ahead of print. https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/acm.2019.0268 published in vol 25, issue 9.
• Lisa Taylor-Swanson, Tanuja Prasad, and Lisa Conboy. “Complex Adaptive Systems Theory and Inter-rated Reliability: Proposed Answers to Challenging Questions” JACM: Nov 2019:1074-1076  https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/full/10.1089/acm.2019.0307

Massage Therapy Evidence Map 

• Massage for Pain: an Evidence Map, published online ahead of print, JACM, published 5.9.2019.

Research Literacy Basics: Practical Applications for the Hospital-based Practitioner
The following citations were added to the blog article, "Research Literacy Notes for the Hospital-based Practitioner".

• Notes on formatting your research paper from the journal Nature:
• "How Small Changes to a Paper Can Help to Smooth the Review Process" by Michael White
• Improve your research and science writing with "Tips on How to Write a Great Science Paper" from novelist Cormac McCarthy.

Research Thursdays: Oncology article
The following was updated in the "Research Thursdays: Oncology" blog resource article.

• Journal of the American Society of Acupuncturists (JASA), formerly Meridians: JAOM, fall 2019 issue articles on oncology
• Clinical Pearls section query is "How Do You Treat Chemotherapy-Induced Peripheral Neuropathy in Your Clinic?" p. 30 - 36
• "Exceptional Results in Traditional Chinese Medicine and Oncology: A Focus Dryness and Heat Part One, Radiation: External Dryness" by Dr. Yair Maimon, p. 36
• The 2019 Society for Integrative Oncology conference report by Dr. Jason Bussell, p. 40
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New or Updated Resources on Research from NCCIH

• Pragmatic Clinical Trials resource.
• For those of you interested in clinical research in real-world settings, see NCCIH's online resource, "Rethinking Clinical Trials, A Living Textbook of Pragmatic Clinical Trials". This resource is published by the NIH Health Care Systems Research Collaboratory. It contains information about the design, conduct, and dissemination of pragmatic clinical research. And it has examples from the Collaboratory's demonstration projects.
• NCCIH on the NIH HEAL initiatives to stem the opioid crisis with non-drug pain management approaches

• NCCIH's Whole Systems Webinar, February 19th, 2020
• "NCCIH Strategic Planning Webinar: Whole Person Health"
• speaker: Dr. Helene Langevin, NCCIH Director
• Q&A with Dr. Langevin and members of NCCIH senior leadership
• landing page: https://nccih.nih.gov/node/25588 is the landing page
• recorded webinar is at: https://videocast.nih.gov/summary.asp?live=35871&bhcp=1

"Join NCCIH and our director, Dr. Helene Langevin, as we launch NCCIH’s strategic planning process for the next 5-year plan (2021–2026). We will kick off this year-long process with a webinar for the complementary and integrative health community on the topic of 'Whole Person Health.' Dr. Langevin will share her thoughts on this topic, which considers the whole person and the relationships among numerous factors, including biologic, environmental, behavioral, mental, and social factors, in determining health. She will also focus on how this concept fits into and expands upon NCCIH’s current strategic plan and may serve as a way to inform our strategic planning and future research directions.
"Input gathered as a result of this event will feed into the NCCIH strategic planning process being led by Ms. Mary Beth Kester, Director of the NCCIH Office of Policy, Planning, and Evaluation.
"Dr. Langevin presented initial thoughts on this topic at the afternoon session of the September 20, 2019, NCCIH Advisory Council meeting." 

Podcasts
Nature.com's "Working Scientist" podcast

• "How to Write a Top-Notch Paper", published 2.13.2020
• "How to Bounce Back from a Bruising Peer Review or Rejection", published 2.21.2020
• "How to Get Media Coverage for Your Research", published 2.27.2020
• "How the Academic Paper is Evolving in the 21st century", published 3.5.2020

Reviewing Some Research Basics

• Practical Applications for the Healthcare Practitioner
• NIH's "Know The Science: 9 Questions to Help You Make Sense of Health Research"
• Do you know what the "placebo effect" is? Review with this NCCIH video of Dr. Ted Kaptchuck.
• New videos from the Massage Therapy Foundation on "Why Research?" and "What is Research" at this blog post.
• More resources for future research article writers at JASA's author resource page

Metrics: Clinician Employee Burnout & Employee Well-Being

Are you interested in measuring burnout or well-being?
Learn more about the NAM Clinician Well-Being Series at our concise blog post here

For more on the topic of research

• follow the tag/labels in this blog for: "research literacy" and "metrics"
• Your Medical Library and Professional Journal Access: An Employee Benefit
• The Massage Therapy Foundation's Research Webinar Series 2019
• Research Basics and Practical Applications for the Healthcare Clinician
• The Integrative Medicine Researcher
• Research Thursdays: Oncology
• Resource: The Massage Therapy Foundation
• Dr. Helene Langevin, NCCIH, and acupuncture research
• The Teaching Kitchen Collaborative and Healthy Kitchens, Healthy Lives
• The FDA Roadmap on Patient-Reported Outcome Measures (video series)
• Research Journal Resources for Authors Page by JASA, formerly Meridians JAOM
• Articles related to the Hospital Practice Handbook Project that have been published in peer-reviewed journals can be found on our publications page. 

Other monthly research summary blogposts

• Fall 2019 Research Roundup
• August Research Roundup
• April Research Roundup
• March Research Roundup
• February Research Roundup
• January Research Roundup
• December Research Roundup (2018)

Research Review posts

• Acupuncture and Fascia Research
• Key Papers when discussion acupuncture for pain management with a physician
• The Field of Acupuncture Research in Just 10 minutes (video)

Research Resource Websites & Journals

• Journal of the American Society of Acupuncturists (JASA), formerly Meridians: Journal of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine
• Evidence-Based Acupuncture (EBA)
• Society of Acupuncture Research (SAR) is associated with 
• The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine (JACM): Paradigm, Practice, and Policy Advancing Integrative Health

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