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A comprehensive survey of collaborative biostatistics units in academic health centers.

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Hanlon, AL; Lozano, AJ; Prakash, S; Bezar, EB; Ambrosius, WT; Brock, G; Desai, M; Pollock, BH; Sammel, MD; Spratt, H; Welty, LJ; Pomann, G-M
Published in: Stat (Int Stat Inst)
December 2022

The organizational structures of collaborative biostatistics units in academic health centers (AHCs) in the United States and their important contributions to research are an evolving and active area of discussion and inquiry. Collaborative biostatistics units may serve as a centralized resource to investigators across various disciplines or as shared infrastructure for investigators within a discipline (e.g., cancer), or a combination of both. The characteristics of such units vary greatly, and there has been no comprehensive review of their organizational structures described in the literature to date. This manuscript summarizes the current infrastructure of such units using responses from 129 leaders. Most leaders were over 45 years old, held doctoral degrees, and were on a 12-month appointment. Over half were tenured or on a tenure track and held primary appointments in a school of medicine. Career advancement metrics most important included being funded as co-investigator on NIH grants and being either first or second author on peer-reviewed publications. Team composition was diverse in terms of expertise and training, and funding sources were typically hybrid. These results provide a benchmark for collaboration models and evaluation and may be used by institutional administrators as they build, evaluate, or restructure current collaborative quantitative support infrastructure.

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Stat (Int Stat Inst)

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2049-1573

Publication Date

December 2022

Volume

11

Issue

1

Start / End Page

e521

Location

United States

Related Subject Headings

  • 4905 Statistics
  • 0104 Statistics
 

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Hanlon, A. L., Lozano, A. J., Prakash, S., Bezar, E. B., Ambrosius, W. T., Brock, G., … Pomann, G.-M. (2022). A comprehensive survey of collaborative biostatistics units in academic health centers. Stat (Int Stat Inst), 11(1), e521. https://doi.org/10.1002/sta4.521
Hanlon, Alexandra L., Alicia J. Lozano, Swathi Prakash, Emily B. Bezar, Walter T. Ambrosius, Guy Brock, Manisha Desai, et al. “A comprehensive survey of collaborative biostatistics units in academic health centers.Stat (Int Stat Inst) 11, no. 1 (December 2022): e521. https://doi.org/10.1002/sta4.521.
Hanlon AL, Lozano AJ, Prakash S, Bezar EB, Ambrosius WT, Brock G, et al. A comprehensive survey of collaborative biostatistics units in academic health centers. Stat (Int Stat Inst). 2022 Dec;11(1):e521.
Hanlon, Alexandra L., et al. “A comprehensive survey of collaborative biostatistics units in academic health centers.Stat (Int Stat Inst), vol. 11, no. 1, Dec. 2022, p. e521. Pubmed, doi:10.1002/sta4.521.
Hanlon AL, Lozano AJ, Prakash S, Bezar EB, Ambrosius WT, Brock G, Desai M, Pollock BH, Sammel MD, Spratt H, Welty LJ, Pomann G-M. A comprehensive survey of collaborative biostatistics units in academic health centers. Stat (Int Stat Inst). 2022 Dec;11(1):e521.

Published In

Stat (Int Stat Inst)

DOI

ISSN

2049-1573

Publication Date

December 2022

Volume

11

Issue

1

Start / End Page

e521

Location

United States

Related Subject Headings

  • 4905 Statistics
  • 0104 Statistics