[Clinical research and its evaluation].

Biomedical research may be defined as "basic" or "applied." Applied research may be "pre-clinical" or "clinical." The final products of research are publications in peer-review system journals and patents. The measurement of quality in biomedical research is performed by using many parameters, such as impact factor, citations, and number of granted projects. In the United States and some countries in Europe, the evaluation of research in public and private institutions is done by a council of faculty members or by accredited agencies. In Italy, mass media commissions the measurement of quality in biomedical research to non-accredited institutions, as was done recently by Corriere della Sera-Salute.