社区外展和参与在 NCI 癌症中心支持拨款评估中的作用。

The role of community outreach and engagement in evaluation of NCI Cancer Center Support Grants.

机构信息

Center for Cancer Equity and Engagement, Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center, Boston, MA, USA.

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, 450 Brookline Avenue, Boston, MA, 02215, USA.

出版信息

Cancer Causes Control. 2024 Jan;35(1):73-75. doi: 10.1007/s10552-023-01770-3. Epub 2023 Aug 10.

DOI:10.1007/s10552-023-01770-3

PMID:37563423

Abstract

PURPOSE

National Cancer Institute (NCI)-designated cancer centers are required to consider their impact on the catchment area they serve. These activities are facilitated by community outreach and engagement (COE) activities as specified in the Cancer Center Support Grant (CCSG) request for applications. While the critical importance of COE activities to NCI-designated cancer centers is well known, it is less clear what impact the COE component has on the overall CCSG merit descriptor and score.

METHODS

We undertook an online survey of all 62 NCI-designated Comprehensive and Clinical centers who reported their COE merit descriptor and overall CCSG priority score as of Fall 2021.

RESULTS

Of 48 (77%) of responding centers, we identified a strong correlation between the COE merit descriptor and the overall numerical CCSG score received by the center (Spearman's rank correlation coefficient r = 0.360, p = 0.0053). When stratifying this relationship by center type, we observed a very strong correlation between COE and CCSG ratings for comprehensive cancer centers (n = 40; r = 0.544; p = 0.0003) but not for non-comprehensive cancer centers (n = 8; r = 0.073; p = 0.864).

CONCLUSION

COE component merit descriptors for comprehensive cancer center CCSG evaluations are strongly correlated with the overall cancer center review score.

摘要

目的

国家癌症研究所 (NCI) 指定的癌症中心被要求考虑其对服务的集水区的影响。这些活动是通过社区外展和参与 (COE) 活动来促进的，这些活动在癌症中心支持赠款 (CCSG) 申请中有所规定。虽然 COE 活动对 NCI 指定癌症中心的至关重要性是众所周知的，但 COE 部分对整体 CCSG 优点描述符和评分的影响还不太清楚。

方法

我们对所有 62 个 NCI 指定的综合和临床中心进行了在线调查，这些中心在 2021 年秋季报告了他们的 COE 优点描述符和整体 CCSG 优先评分。

结果

在 48 个（77%）回应中心中，我们发现 COE 优点描述符与中心收到的整体 CCSG 评分之间存在很强的相关性（Spearman 等级相关系数 r=0.360，p=0.0053）。当按中心类型对这种关系进行分层时，我们观察到综合癌症中心的 COE 和 CCSG 评分之间存在很强的相关性（n=40；r=0.544；p=0.0003），但非综合癌症中心之间没有相关性（n=8；r=0.073；p=0.864）。