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Public funding for research: a way into investigation in urgency and emergency medicine

Rebollo García NE, Kuli Muhedini G, Perea-Milla López E, Molina Ruano R, Ordóñez Márti-Aguilar MV

Affiliation of the authors

Investigation Unit. Emergency Department. Head of the Investigation Unit. Hospital Costa del Sol- Marbella, Málaga, Spain. Emergency Department. USP Hospitals-Málaga, Spain. Head of the office of International Projects. Fundación IMABIS , Málaga, Spain.

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Rebollo García NE, Kuli Muhedini G, Perea-Milla López E, Molina Ruano R, Ordóñez Márti-Aguilar MV. Public funding for research: a way into investigation in urgency and emergency medicine. Emergencias. 2008;20:335-42

Summary

The knowledge available in the evaluation systems that funding agencies set up to

review applications can be taken advantage of to increase the amount of well-designed

research in emergency medicine, improving the current situation of low productivity. To

further that end, we describe the 2 main review systems used by the Spanish national

funding agency and the European Seventh Framework Programme for health research.

The dimensions analyzed were as follows: procedures, processes and evaluation criteria;

criterion weighting; and characteristics of reviewers. The 2 systems differ in terms of

general organization, objectives, policies, allocation of resources, funding mechanisms,

importance placed on research productivity, organization of research processes and

management. Comparison is therefore difficult. Limitations detected include the lack of

feedback for reviewers, of blinding, and of mechanisms to guarantee that evaluation

criteria are applied consistently by reviewers over time.

 

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