A checklist for health research priority setting: nine common themes of good practice.

ABSTRACT: Health research priority setting processes assist researchers and policymakers in effectively targeting research that has the greatest potential public health benefit. Many different approaches to health research prioritization exist, but there is no agreement on what might constitute best practice. Moreover, because of the many different contexts for which priorities can be set, attempting to produce one best practice is in fact not appropriate, as the optimal approach varies per exercise. Therefore, following a literature review and an analysis of health research priority setting exercises that were organized or coordinated by the World Health Organization since 2005, we propose a checklist for health research priority setting that allows for informed choices on different approaches and

SUBMITTER: Viergever RF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3018439 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature