The clinical relevance and newsworthiness of NIHR HTA-funded research: a cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To assess the clinical relevance and newsworthiness of the UK National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Health Technology Assessment (HTA) Programme funded reports.

Study design

Retrospective cohort study.

Setting

The cohort included 311 NIHR HTA Programme funded reports publishing in HTA in the period 1 January 2007-31 December 2012. The McMaster Online Rating of Evidence (MORE) system independently identified the clinical relevance and newsworthiness of NIHR HTA publications and non-NIHR HTA publications. The MORE system involves over 4000 physicians rating publications on a scale of relevance (the extent to which articles are relevant to practice) and a scale of newsworthiness (the extent to which articles contain news or something clinicians are unli

SUBMITTER: Wright D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4024580 | biostudies-literature | 2014 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature