Practical metrics for establishing the health benefits of research to support research prioritisation.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

We present practical metrics for estimating the expected health benefits of specific research proposals. These can be used by research funders, researchers and healthcare decision-makers within low-income and middle-income countries to support evidence-based research prioritisation.

Methods

The methods require three key assessments: (1) the current level of uncertainty around the endpoints the proposed study will measure; (2) how uncertainty impacts on the health benefits and costs of healthcare programmes and (3) the health opportunity costs imposed by programme costs. Research is valuable because it can improve health by informing the choice of which programmes should be implemented. We provide a Microsoft Excel tool to allow readers to generate estimates of t

SUBMITTER: Woods B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7462234 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature