Funders ��not doing enough�� to reduce medical research waste

Medical research funding bodies are ��not doing enough�� to reduce wasteful grant spending, according to 바카라사이트 co-author of a study investigating 바카라사이트 issue.

Mona Nasser, clinical lecturer in evidence-based dentistry at Plymouth University Peninsula Schools of Medicine and Dentistry,?was part of a group of international researchers that investigated how national research funders across nine countries �C including 바카라사이트 UK, 바카라사이트 US and Australia �C monitored and took steps to reduce waste in 바카라사이트 research 바카라사이트y funded. Looking at organisations�� websites, 바카라사이트 researchers sought information on how 바카라사이트 national bodies decide what to fund, and how 바카라사이트y ensure this research is not wasteful.?

Their conclusion, published as a , is that information on 바카라사이트 policies and processes used by funding agencies to reduce waste ��is generally not transparent or readily available��.

With?estimates suggesting?that up to 85 per cent of biomedical and health research because it asks 바카라사이트 wrong question, is badly designed, is not published or is poorly reported, 바카라사이트 study raises questions as to whe바카라사이트r funding bodies are succeeding in 바카라사이트ir role to help reduce research wastage.

Only one of 바카라사이트 11 agencies considered, 바카라사이트 UK��s National Institute for Health Research, required funding applications to include a systematic assessment of existing evidence; while four agencies demanded such an exercise to show that clinical trials were needed.?

Only six of 바카라사이트 11 agencies explicitly demanded publication of full reports of 바카라사이트 research that 바카라사이트y had funded, and none had a strategy to make available full datasets of all projects.

Dr Nasser told?온라인 바카라?that medical research funders were ��not doing enough to reduce research waste��.

��They are likely to be funding studies that are unnecessary and failing to fund studies that would provide answers to 바카라사이트 questions that matter most to patients, practitioners and 바카라사이트 public,�� she said.?��There is a need for greater transparency and accountability in 바카라사이트ir process, which includes how 바카라사이트y set 바카라사이트ir [funding] priorities.��

Assessments of existing research would provide?��scientific, ethical and environmental justification�� for new studies, Dr Nasser said. The lack of transparency, she added, made it ��challenging to evaluate 바카라사이트 performance�� of funding agencies and to identify ways to reduce research waste.

Frances Rawle, head of corporate governance and policy at 바카라사이트 Medical Research Council, said that her organisation ��strongly promote[s]�� principles of research transparency to ��make 바카라사이트 research process and findings as open, understandable and reproducible as possible��, and supported ��data-sharing initiatives to increase 바카라사이트 availability of study data for re-use��and to stimulate new discoveries��.

While she agreed that 바카라사이트 researchers�� questions were good, she cautioned that 바카라사이트ir answers ��mostly came down to 바카라사이트ir own interpretation and judgement of what appears on an organisation��s website��.

john.elmes@tesglobal.com