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Rik Viergever in Nature

01 NOVEMBER 2013


Medical research: Analyse impact of health priorities
Roderik F. Viergever
Nature.  Volume: 502, Page: 171 (10 October 2013)

There is a dearth of evidence for the assumed beneficial effects of involving patients and the public in health-research decisions (S. Petit-Zeman and L. Locock Nature 501, 160–161; 2013). This is just one example of the general difficulty of measuring the impact of setting health-research priorities.

These priorities are decided by researchers and policy-makers to stimulate urgent research (see, for example, go.nature.com/pxealf). The guidelines for evaluating such priority-setting processes (R. F. Viergever et al. Health Res. Policy Sys. 8, 36; 2010) need to be extended to cover impact measurement and analysis.

For full text, see http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v502/n7470/full/502171c.html

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