Fostering Clinical Research in the Community Hospital: Opportunities and Best Practices

Abstract

With potential to improve patient outcomes, quality of care and cost-effectiveness, clinical research activity in community hospitals has recently begun to increase. Recognizing that establishing or strengthening a clinical research program in this setting is an important, complex and challenging under-taking, this article introduces many of the resources, best practices and success stories that community hospitals can draw upon to develop and incentivize clinical researchers, operationalize the clinical research enterprise and make clinical research impactful.