The Results of the Survey of Routine to Research (R2R) and Research Utilization in the Faculty of Medicine Ramathibodi Hospital, Mahidol University

Abstract

The Faculty of Medicine Ramathibodi Hospital, Mahidol University provides supportive for doing research about routine work. In the past, there has been no monitoring of the utilization of the research. This research aimed to 1) study the number of Routine to Research (R2R) projects and 2) study the utilization of the results of R2R research. A qualitative approach was used for this documentary research. This retrospective study was conducted at the Research Fund and Analysis Unit between the academic years 2014 to 2018 by using secondary data for data collection and analysis. The data consisted of the number of the routine to research (R2R) projects receiving funds, the R2R projects were categorized by year, type of researches and research utilization. The research record form was used as the tool to data collection. Data analysis was done by using descriptive statistics. The results showed that there were 96 R2R projects that received funding. During the studied period, 17 projects (17.71%) published articles in national journals and 4 projects (4.17%) were granted a patent and petty patent. Only 28 projects (34.57%) were utilized and published in journals. Although not many of the R2R projects in the Faculty of Medicine Ramathibodi Hospital were utilized, the projects had potential for encouraging research utilization into large scale effects. Therefore, R2R projects should receive cooperation and support from many outside sectors and the faculty support system to develop routine works that can be extended into routine research until it can be improved and truly utilized and should receive future encouragement continuously.