19 March 2010

RESEARCH GOVERNANCE

Governing health services research: is it working? (15th March 2010)
Research governance is an issue that constantly troubles members of the Health Services Research Network (HSRN), who feel that a system that has been set up to deal with clinical research unfairly places an excessive level of regulatory burden on much lower risk health services research, which is largely non-clinical and non-invasive.

As part of HSRN’s programme of work looking at this issue, they commissioned Mary Dixon Woods and Karen Yeung to write this viewpoint to help them understand and provide some questioning of how the current system operates.
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