RESEARCH PRIORITIES IN RHEUMATOLOGY

Research priorities in pediatric rheumatology: The Childhood Arthritis and Rheumatology Research Alliance (CARRA) consensus

BACKGROUND North American pediatric rheumatologists have created an investigator-initiated research network (the Childhood Arthritis and Rheumatology Research Alliance - CARRA) to facilitate multi-centre studies. One of the first projects undertaken by this network was to define, by consensus, research priorities for the group, and if possible a first group-sponsored clinical trial in which all...

Rheumatology and rheumatology research, a mismatch.

THE study by Williams and his colleagues [1] raises the questions: What is the rheumatologist's job description? How should he dispense his time between seeing patients and training his staff and in what directions should he lead his researchers? There could be as many answers as there are rheumatologists. One feature of life as a consultant in Britain is freedom to play the consultant game con...

Research priorities in bronchiectasis.

Taking a network approach, we have identified research priorities in non-cystic fibrosis bronchiectasis. We discuss these in the context of increasing recognition of bronchiectasis and increasing mortality rates.

Research priorities in traditional Chinese

Priorities of ophthalmic research.

The purpose of research is to uncover truths, that is to describe reality validly. But all truths are not equally generalizable, and all research is not equally justifiable. For example, the value of a study that requires an N of 100,000 to reach statistical significance (a presumed truth) is likely to be far less than that of a study requiring only an N of 10. Furthermore, the value of researc...