NCHATS Methods Core Workstreams
The NCHATS Methods Core Workstreams are subgroups within the Methods Core with specific expertise, all of which are required to finish a single project.
The Workstreams will provide training, resources, consultation, and hands-on operational support for Center Signature, Exploratory, and Pilot Feasibility projects and other Center functions, such as dissemination and evaluation. The Work Streams serve 3 functions: (1) to provide methodological expertise and operational support to ensure that Center projects succeed, (2) to help facilitate Center Think Tanks, and (3) to serve as a consultation, mentoring, and training resource for the Center’s trainees, faculty members, and interested stakeholders across the nation.
Below is a list of the NCHATS Workstreams, each of which is led by an expert in their field.
This workstream provides expertise in the following areas:
- RCT methods, pragmatic trial designs (e.g., cluster-randomized trials, stepped wedge, SMART designs), quasi-experimental designs, experimental therapeutics, power analyses, multilevel modeling, qualitative design and analysis, services and policy research
- Economic evaluation, cost-effectiveness analyses, cost as an implementation outcome, payor perspectives, budget impact analysis, micro-costing techniques, risk adjustment analysis
- Biomedical informatics, including clinical informatics, quality informatics, consumer health informatics; health data (claims data, electronic health record, health information exchange) for tracking healthcare utilization and suicide-related outcomes; combining data systems (e.g., healthcare and justice); data extraction, integration, management, and analysis; machine learning; data and text mining; standards and interoperability
This workstream provides expertise in the following areas:
- Community-engaged research methods, communication research, dissemination science, dissemination practice, stakeholder engagement, national dissemination networks and channels (Zero Suicide Initiative; Justice Community Opioid Innovation Network [JCOIN] Coordinating Center; Mental Health Research Network [MHRN]; Addiction Policy Forum [APF]])
- Hybrid designs; formative and process evaluations; implementation measures, outcomes, theories, models, and frameworks; implementation strategy development; justice and health system factors influencing implementation; sustainability and scale-up
This workstream provides expertise in the following areas:
- National, state, and local justice system needs and structures; criminal justice (CJ) as a public health system; gaps in existing services; CJ-health system partnerships; inter-agency teams; intervention, services, implementation, and policy research at justice intercepts; CJ scale-up
- National, state, and local health system and payor needs and structures; Characteristics determining scalability and sustainability of interventions from a health systems perspective; Health administration and policy; health records outcome measurement; embedded health system research.
This workstream provides expertise in the following areas:
- Suicide prevention assessment, intervention, training, fidelity; Telehealth interventions; Safety Planning Intervention; Coping with Long-term Active Suicide Prevention; CBT-Suicide; Caring Contacts; lethal means counseling
- Human subjects, good clinical practice, safety and adverse event reporting procedures, ethics/protection of justice-involved/suicidal participants
This workstream provides expertise in the following areas:
- Structural and social determinants of health, interventions for diverse populations, evidence-based practices for reducing disparities, health equity, training and supporting a diverse research workforce
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