NNE PIPE

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Northern New England Provider Insights Participatory Engagement (NNE PIPE) Survey

The NNE CO-OP PCBRN has launch our inaugural Northern New England Provider Insights and Participatory Engagement (NNE PIPE) Survey. NNE PIPE is supported by the NNE Clinical Translational Research Network (NNE-CTR) Pilot Project Program (U54GM115516). The purpose of the NNE PIPE Survey is to gain a deeper understanding of existing practices, assess the effects of clinical interventions or policy, and identify areas that require additional quality improvement and innovative research.

Like the national CAFM Educational Research Alliance (CERA) and West Virginia Practice Based Research Network CORE surveys, the NNE PIPE Survey is a compilation of questions from NNE CO-OP PCBRN and NNE CTR members relating to healthcare issues that are relevant to our rural communities. The NNE CO-OP PCBRN is interested in all aspects of primary care quality improvement and research.

The primary goals of the NNE PIPE Survey are to:

  • Encourage research participation between clinical and academic research members
  • Ensure representation of rural NNE  primary care clinicians (PCCs) in survey research that has been carefully chosen by NNE CO-OP PCBRN leadership and clinical members
  • Learn from PCCs about their perceived primary care health care challenges and research topics pertinent to serving rural communities in NNE
  • Reduce circulation of multiple surveys to our members
  • Remove clinical and academic researcher burden on obtaining Institutional Review Board (IRB) approval to conduct non-human subject survey research

The NNE CO-OP PCBRN has rolled out our inaugural NNE PIPE Survey to PCCs across NNE in October, 2024. Respondents will be incentivized via gift card drawings and disclosure of the required information and chances of winning for the drawing will be provided with the final survey when it is announced. The NNE PIPE Survey will close the last week of November, 2024.

Eligibility Criteria for Proposal Submission

You must be a member of the NNE CO-OP PCBRN to submit a proposal. You can sign up for this free and voluntary membership at the time of proposal submission or by clicking here. Clinicians’ and/or investigators’ proposals may include up to 10 questions per application. The questions should not include basic demographic information as that will be covered in the survey introduction section. Up to three applicant proposals will be selected for inclusion in the NNE PIPE Survey.

Proposal Application Process

Proposals for the inaugural 2024 NNE PIPE Survey are now closed. Please return for updated information in 2025.

Applications must include all the following criteria:

  1. Project Title
  2. Contact Principal Investigator (PI) and Team information (name, address, phone, email)
  3. Health care topic that is addressed by the survey questions
  4. Description of how the information is relevant and useful to the PCCs in NNE
  5. List which Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)1 Priority Populations and/or NNE Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA) data-driven priority areas* are addressed by the survey questions
  6. List of up to 10 proposed non-demographical questions with response options and (if applicable) logic branching instructions

Priority will be given to those proposals that:

  1. Benefit rural primary care practices and communities
  2. Focus on AHRQ Priority Populations and/or NNE CHNA data-driven priority areas
  3. Are likely to result in pilot data for a grant application
  4. Are likely to contribute towards a peer-reviewed publication
  5. Have a high quality of submission, including the listed questions and response options

* See the following hyperlinks for more information on NNE CHNA data driven priorities for Maine2, New Hampshire3,4, Vermont5

Proposal Selection Process

The NNE CO-OP PCBRN will select up to three proposals that are most relevant and of interest to our network members. Applicants will be notified of their proposal acceptance status the first week of September, 2024.The selected applicants will be linked with a NNE CO-OP PCBRN Advisor, who will become an integral part of the survey research team. Advisors will assist with the refinement, of the proposed questions, link researchers to NNE CO-OP PCBRN and NNE-CTR services, facilitate with the statistical analysis and interpretation, and aid in the preparation and submission of presentations and manuscripts. Advisors are expected to be acknowledged as co-authors on presentations and papers that directly result from the NNE PIPE Survey. The NNE CO-OP PCBRN should be listed in the acknowledgments section on peer reviewed manuscripts that utilize data from the NNE PIPE Survey. The NNE PIPE Survey was determined to be not human research by the Dartmouth-Hitchcock IRB (STUDY02002350).

The selected applicants will have exclusive access to their portion of the deidentified survey results (along with access to the core respondent demographics as needed) within 30 days after conclusion of the survey. The NNE CO-OP PCBRN staff will be responsible for collecting, monitoring, and storing the dataset. Aggregated survey results will be made publicly available 120 days after survey completion in order to disseminate findings back to the respondents.

Selected applicants for the inaugural NNE PIPE Survey will be automatically invited to present their findings via a poster presentation at the NNE CO-OP PCBRN 45th Annual Meeting at the Attitash Resort in Bartlett, NH on January 25th, 2025. One presenter from each of the three selected applicants will have their annual meeting registration fee waived to attend and present their findings.

 

NNE PIPE Survey Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ):
If you are considering submitting a proposal and have additional questions not answered below, please email us at NNECO-OPPCBRN@hitchcock.org.

Each proposal of 10 questions or less should take ≤5 minutes for a participate to complete. 

We welcome all types of questions, including multiple-choice and open-ended formats, with the goal of ensuring that the total of 10 questions takes ≤5 minutes to complete.

Questions with multiple parts are allowed in the survey with each part counting towards the 10 question maximum. 

Yes! We will reach out to those selected to review and incorporate any needed changes before sending the NNE PIPE Survey.

We welcome any additional questions you have including if there is a question on methodology or best research practices. Please note we will need several business days in advance of the deadline to respond to your questions. A separate full application email must be submitted by the deadline to be considered.