Clinical research lags behind biomedical, population-based health, and health services research at multiple levels

Clinical and Investigative Medicine

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2007, Pages

  Raghavan, Malathi ^a,b   Sandham, J Dean ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Biomedical research; Clinical research; Clinician scientist; Health research; Health systems and services; Physician scientist; Population based health; Research growth

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; MEDICAL RESEARCH; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; CANADA; ECONOMICS; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HUMAN; PERSONNEL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICS;

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; CANADA; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMANS; RESEARCH PERSONNEL; RESEARCH SUPPORT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 35248901043     PISSN: 0147958X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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