Unlike other countries in South Asia, in Nepal research in the health sector has a relatively recent history. Most health research activities in the country are sponsored by international collaborative assemblages of aid agencies and universities. Data from Nepal Health Research Council shows that, officially, 1,212 health research activities have been carried out between 1991 and 2014. These r...

OBJECTIVE Effective data sharing is critical for comparative effectiveness research (CER), but there are significant concerns about inappropriate disclosure of patient data. These concerns have spurred the development of new technologies for privacy-preserving data sharing and data mining. Our goal is to review existing and emerging techniques that may be appropriate for data sharing related to...

background: knowledge production and evaluation are two important functions of health research system (hrs). in this article, we aimed to reveal the correlation between evaluation of health research organizations and health knowledge production promotion. methods: a comprehensive evaluation system was developed to evaluate the academic performance of national medical science universities on an ...

o bjective: to compare and evaluation of scores of trauma research center of shiraz university of medical sciences in iran with other trauma research centers in iran. m e thods: the assessment scores of each center were gathered from iran medical research and ministry of health and medical education website. each score is recorded in helical year which is defined from the 21th of march of every...

introduction: the process of knowledge transfer and exchange (kte) in fact is a process of utilizing knowledge gained from research to practice. appropriate exploitation of research results is guaranteed by good management of the research. the research aimed to evaluate the situation of kte in current research centers in isfahan university of medical sciences, and review its strengths and weakn...

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Current approaches to retail productivity measurement have long been controversial because of difficulties in identifying the level of retail services. Data Envelopment Analysis, an operations research-based performance evaluation methodology, is introduced as one solution for resolving this problem and assessing managerially useful measure of storelevel retail productivity. Data Envelopment An...

2.5.1 Study quality assessment and bias 2 2.5.2 Bias and quality assessment 2 2.5.3 Quality threshold for study selection 4 2.5.4 Development of quality assessment instruments 6 2.5.5 Quality assessment of effectiveness studies 8 2.5.6 Quality assessment of test accuracy studies 11 2.5.7 Quality assessment of qualitative research 12 2.5.8 Quality assessment of economic evaluations 13 2.5.9 Key ...

The Advisory Research and Evaluation Team (ARET) addressees program evaluation and applied research. OLLI's program evaluation function uses surveys and systematic studies to assess how well the organization is meeting its goals in providing innovative approaches and emerging methods in older adult learning, addressing member satisfaction, and supporting member community. OLLI?s research progra...