Emergency Medicine Network, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 55 Fruit Street, Boston, MA 02114, USA.
Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 55 Fruit Street, Boston, MA 02114, USA.
Anesthesiol Clin. 2021 Jun;39(2):379-388. doi: 10.1016/j.anclin.2021.03.004.
The COVID-19 pandemic has seen many hurdles to crucial research processes, in particular those that depend on personnel interactions, in providing safeguards against the incipient infectious disease. At the same time, there was a rapid redirection of research, driven by popular and social media and demand for pandemic-related content, to the detriment of non-COVID-19 research and perhaps to COVID-19 research itself. This article provides historical context to research redirection and discusses approaches to optimizing research methodology in the setting of COVID-19 pandemic.
新冠疫情期间,许多关键研究流程面临重重阻碍,尤其是那些依赖人员互动的流程,因为这些流程需要采取预防传染病的措施。与此同时,受大众媒体和社交媒体的推动,以及对大流行相关内容的需求,研究出现了快速转向,而非新冠疫情相关研究受到影响,新冠疫情研究本身也可能受到影响。本文提供了研究转向的历史背景,并讨论了在新冠疫情大流行背景下优化研究方法的方法。