Midwestern University College of Pharmacy, 555 31st Street, Downers Grove, IL, 60515, USA.
Res Social Adm Pharm. 2021 Dec;17(12):2028-2035. doi: 10.1016/j.sapharm.2021.04.006. Epub 2021 Apr 20.
The volume of the biomedical literature continues to expand at a substantial rate. The research literature surrounding pharmaceutical services is no different. Due in part to events in the recent past, researchers, consumers, funders, and policymakers have raised concerns about the credibility, transparency, and potential waste in the global research enterprise. Meta-research, or research on research, provides a way to examine the efficiency, quality, and potential bias in the overall research ecosystem. The field of meta-research is a relatively new but rapidly growing field that has seen many applications in biomedical research. Applications in pharmacy research, however, are still developing. The goals of this commentary are to introduce pharmacy researchers to the concept of meta-research, discuss several examples of meta-research in pharmacy, and motivate the importance of sustained meta-research efforts in pharmacy.
生物医学文献的数量继续以相当大的速度增长。围绕药学服务的研究文献也不例外。部分由于最近发生的一些事件，研究人员、消费者、资助者和政策制定者对全球研究企业的可信度、透明度和潜在浪费表示担忧。元研究，或对研究的研究，为检查整个研究生态系统的效率、质量和潜在偏差提供了一种方法。元研究领域是一个相对较新但发展迅速的领域，在生物医学研究中已有许多应用。然而，在药学研究中的应用仍在发展中。本文的目的是向药学研究人员介绍元研究的概念，讨论药学中元研究的几个例子，并激发药学中元研究工作的重要性。
