[Financing sources in urologic clinical research].

One of the most important challenges of research in the health sciences is to approximate basic, clinical, and epidemiological research, and to convert hospitals and outpatient clinics in nuclei of vanguard and innovation in this field. It is not possible to develop quality research without a quality clinical practice and vice versa. Because of this, all investment efforts made in this field will always be actions that, immediately or on the long-term, will finally result in an improvement in the quality of patient care for the citizens, and in greater development impulse and transfer of great amount of technology and innovation that is inexorably emerging in this field. Next there is a summary of the National Plan of Scientific Research, Development and Technological Innovation 2000-2003 and the role of the Institute of Health Carlos III in the promotion of the health science's research in Spain.