Close To Half Of All Medical School Leaders Question Status Of Clinical Research In The U.S.

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For years, the medical community has warned of an impending crisis in clinical research. A study released today in the Journal of the American Medical Association says that close to half of the research leaders at U.S. medical schools do not consider their clinical research enterprises to be healthy or robust. They also question the overall quality of the clinical research being conducted. Providing evidence of the impact of financial pressures on the clinical research mission of academic health centers (AHCs), nine of 10 medical school research leaders report that pressures to see patients and insufficient clinical revenue are problems for clinical research. Four of five research leaders (81 percent) consider the challenges facing clinical research at medicals schools to be urgent or extremely urgent. Despite this sense of urgency, less than half of these leaders said that their department or institution had implemented strategic policies to address the problems facing clinical research. (...)

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