Shaping biomedical research priorities: The case of the National Institutes of Health

Health Care Analysis

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 115-129

  Callahan, Daniel ^a  

^a HASTINGS CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Methodology; NIH; Politics; Priorities; Rationality

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; MEDICAL RESEARCH; METHODOLOGY; POLITICS;

BIOMEDICAL AND BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; HEALTH POLICY; HUMANS; NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH (U.S.); POLICY MAKING; POLITICS; PROGRAM EVALUATION; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0032883943     PISSN: 10653058     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1009401507982     Document Type: Article

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