Impact

Why evaluate?: To determine the impact that the Mayo Clinic CTSA is having on health compared to other institutions in the national CTSA Consortium, it's necessary to compare outcomes from the Mayo Clinic CTSA to those from other CTSA institutions.
What's evaluated?: Outcomes data and epidemiological records are studied to determine the overall impact of the Mayo Clinic CTSA.
How's the data analyzed?: The CTSA evaluation team, which includes the director of evaluation and the Education Evaluation Subcommittee, designs the evaluations and collects, analyzes, and reports the data and results.
How are results used?: The CTSA Executive Committee uses the results to make any necessary changes and adjustments to the CTSA.