Black N, Davies S C
Department of Public Health & Policy, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, UK.
J R Soc Med. 1999 Mar;92(3):129-31. doi: 10.1177/014107689909200307.
Health services research has emerged as the third vital requirement for understanding and improving health care, alongside basic science and clinical research. This has coincided with more stringent management of research, in particular by funding bodies. The latter are seeking to use bibliographic databases to aid the monitoring of the output of their investments. The principal source of data in the UK is the Research Outputs Database (ROD) set up by the Wellcome Trust primarily to monitor basic and clinical research. Health services researchers' output is difficult to monitor in view of the large number and wide variety of journals in which they publish. In addition, nearly half the journals (representing 35% of the articles) are not currently covered by the ROD. Funding bodies will underestimate the quantity of health services researchers' output unless they take these findings into account.
卫生服务研究已成为理解和改善医疗保健的第三个重要要求，与基础科学和临床研究并驾齐驱。这与对研究的更严格管理同时出现，尤其是资助机构的管理。后者正寻求利用文献数据库来帮助监测其投资产出。英国数据的主要来源是由惠康信托基金会设立的研究产出数据库（ROD），主要用于监测基础和临床研究。鉴于卫生服务研究人员发表文章的期刊数量众多、种类繁杂，他们的产出难以监测。此外，目前ROD未涵盖近一半的期刊（占文章的35%）。资助机构若不考虑这些发现，就会低估卫生服务研究人员的产出数量。
