{"entity":{"id":"paper-morris-j-r-soc-med","kind":"paper","name":"The answer is 17 years, what is the question: understanding time lags in translational research","aka":[],"tldr":"Paper cited by one bottleneck page and 18 idea pages, indexed on Europe PMC as PubMed record 22179294 and published in Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine; the citing pages link this DOI, which is how the record was matched.","summary":"This study aimed to review the literature describing and quantifying time lags in the health research translation process. Papers were included in the review if they quantified time lags in the development of health interventions. The study identified 23 papers. Few were comparable as different studies use different measures, of different things, at different time points. We concluded that the current state of knowledge of time lags is of limited use to those responsible for R&D and knowledge transfer who face difficulties in knowing what they should or can do to reduce time lags. This effectively 'blindfolds' investment decisions and risks wasting effort. The study concludes that understanding lags first requires agreeing models, definitions and measures, which can be applied in practice. A second task would be to develop a process by which to gather these data.\n\nIndexed on Europe PMC as PubMed record 22179294 (DOI 10.1258/jrsm.2011.110180). Matched by DOI alone: one bottleneck page and 18 idea pages cite this DOI among their external links (the pages are listed under Related), and this page was written so that the citation resolves inside OnCo. No figure has been checked by an editor.","asOf":"2026-09-22","links":[{"label":"J R Soc Med 2011","url":"https://doi.org/10.1258/jrsm.2011.110180"},{"label":"PubMed","url":"https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22179294/"},{"label":"Europe PMC","url":"https://europepmc.org/article/MED/22179294"}],"tags":["europepmc-ingest"],"related":["b-knowledge-diffusion","idea-data-72-hour-second-opinion-network","idea-data-living-llm-oncology-benchmark","idea-data-patient-explainers-per-recommendation","idea-data-standard-of-care-api","idea-data-evidence-to-adoption-tracker","idea-data-tumour-board-evidence-assistant","idea-data-provenance-first-decision-support","idea-data-structured-trial-results-deposit","idea-data-full-data-with-abstract","idea-data-rapid-guideline-translation","idea-moon-living-machine-readable-guidelines","idea-data-thirty-day-practice-change-learning","idea-data-open-licensed-guidelines","idea-data-implementation-trials-programme","idea-data-guideline-concordance-dashboards","idea-data-standard-of-care-change-alerts","idea-data-toxicity-cds-for-nurses","idea-data-order-set-defaults-30-days"],"cancers":[],"sections":[],"technologies":[],"targets":[],"drugs":[],"companies":[],"institutions":[],"pathways":[],"terms":[],"trials":[],"people":[],"bottlenecks":[],"keyPapers":[],"journals":[],"dependsOn":[],"notes":[],"journal":"Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine","year":2011,"doi":"10.1258/jrsm.2011.110180","pmid":"22179294","authors":"Morris ZS, Wooding S, Grant J","paperType":"review","findings":[],"whatItMeans":"One bottleneck page and 18 idea pages on OnCo cite this paper by its DOI; this record gives the citation a page of its own so a reader can follow it without leaving OnCo. 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