Little science, big science: Strategies for research portfolio selection in academic surgery departments

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 246, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1110-1115

  Shah, Anand ^a   Pietrobon, Ricardo ^a   Cook, Chad ^a   Sheth, Neil P ^a,b   Nguyen, Lam ^a   Guo, Lucie ^a   Jacobs, Danny O ^a   Kuo, Paul C ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ARTICLE; BASIC RESEARCH; BUDGET; CLINICAL RESEARCH; DATA BASE; DECISION MAKING; EVALUATION; FUNDING; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HUMAN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MONEY; MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGERY; UNITED STATES;

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; CAPITAL FINANCING; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH (U.S.); RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGERY DEPARTMENT, HOSPITAL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 36549063446     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SLA.0b013e3180f633f6     Document Type: Article

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