Unfunded Research? I Am Shocked, Shocked!
1993; American Medical Association; Volume: 270; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1001/jama.1993.03510010049017
ISSN1538-3598
Autores Tópico(s)Healthcare cost, quality, practices
ResumoTo the Editor. —Stein et al 1 recently reported that nearly one quarter of original research published in major medical journals was unfunded, and asked, Who is paying for this unfunded research? Their final analysis raises the specter that medical faculty faced with the pressure to publish be performing clandestine research without informed consent and that direct clinical costs for research may have been passed on to study participants or their third-party payers. These are serious accusations that do a disservice to academic medicine since they are based on supposition rather than fact. We reviewed the three journals taken from October 1991 covering our subspecialty (published in Annals of Neurology, Archives of Neurology , and Neurology ). Stein et al reported the results of 26 studies (20 funded and six unfunded) in these three journals, but using their stated exclusion criteria, we found 30 studies (24 funded and six unfunded). None
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