Health services and policy research in the first decade at the Canadian Institutes of Health Research.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Health services and policy research is the innovation engine of a health care system. In 2000, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) was formed to foster the growth of all sciences that could improve health care. We evaluated trends in health services and policy research funding, in addition to determinants of funding success.

Methods

All applications submitted to CIHR strategic and open operating grant competitions between 2001 and 2011 were included in our analysis. Age, sex, size of research team, critical mass, season, year and research discipline were retrieved from application information. A cohort of 4725 applicants successfully funded between 2001 and 2005 were followed for 5 years to evaluate predictors of continuous funding. Multivariate gene

SUBMITTER: Tamblyn R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4933636 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Apr-Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature