Publication rate for funded studies from a major UK health research funder: a cohort study.

ABSTRACT: This study aimed to investigate what percentage of National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Health Technology Assessment (HTA) Programme-funded projects have published their final reports in the programme's journal HTA and to explore reasons for non-publication. Retrospective cohort study. Failure to publish findings from research is a significant area of research waste. It has previously been suggested that potentially over 50% of studies funded are never published. All NIHR HTA projects with a planned submission date for their final report for publication in the journal series on or before 9 December 2011 were included. The projects were classified according to the type of research, whether they had been published or not; if not yet published, whether they would be published in the

SUBMITTER: Turner S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3646183 | biostudies-literature | 2013 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature