Practise making perfect

The most widely used framework of research impact assessment is the Payback Model first published by It is fitting that the forum was presented by AIHS in Buxton and Hanney in 1996.6 Alberta has a strong partnership with the National Alliance of Provincial history in HRIA and was an early adopter of the Health Research Organizations (NAPHRO), a perfect Payback Model.7 The CAHS Impact Framework fit [...] Unattractive to clinicians and administrators clinical trials, the emergence of guidelines, the “We are not generating the evidence we need to assessment of performance and registries, the support the health care decisions that patients and assessment of outcomes by population health and their doctors have to make every day.”10 the recognition of the unmet need that then further Robert Califf, Dep [...] The CAHS joined with two existing academies— The genesis of the Canadian Academy of Health The Royal Society of Canada and The Canadian Sciences (CAHS) Impact Framework lies within the Academy of Engineering—to form The Council of establishment of the Academy in 2005 by then Prime Canadian Academies (CCA). [...] The CAHS Impact Framework was built using a logic Future challenges include building collaborations model and the impacts approach of the Payback across organizations regarding the utilization and Model.6 The Panel then adapted that model into a implementation of the CAHS Impact Framework, systems approach.3 establishing nationally agreed upon standards (e.g., in the collection, analysis and repor [...] According to Graham, one of the most valuable features of the CAHS Impact Framework is that it links research evidence to the categories of health impact throughout all aspects of the health research system.