The analysis provides significant information about empirical versus conceptual studies, industry focus, country of research, research design, data analysis techniques and nature of sampling method and respondents.
Trends on the year and country of research, the total number of complaints reported, issues identified, and characteristics of the patient, complainant and complainer.
A participant was classified as being of foreign descent if she or at least one of her parents was born outside the country of research.
The current functions assigned to the research units in the MoH include development of policy documents and coordination of health research activities in all the countries, management of research in 13 of the 14 countries, ensuring capacity building, monitoring and evaluation in 11 of the 14 countries, and conducting research on behalf of the MoH in 9 of the 14 countries.
At least six key considerations in country-of-origin research deserve concurrent attention in future studies.
Applying insights from these interventions into problems in LAC countries is a promising area of research.
In many countries, evaluation of research outputs in academic units is used as a method of allocating funds, it is also used as a management tool to monitor the performed activities [ 20].
This may reflect the different background (more chronic symptoms) of our research subjects or differences in social and health care systems between Finland and the countries of previous research populations.
Among national guidelines/legislation, we considered the UK Clinical Trials Regulation, which is the main reference for some Commonwealth countries and for UK funding agencies, and the regulations/legislation of host countries of our research projects, i.e. Belgium, South Africa, Ethiopia, Uganda and Ghana.
We extracted data on the title, authors, year of publication, corresponding author's country of origin, countries of focus, research design and sample, summary of the main findings, ATM issues considered in the study, 'levels' of barrier studied and the research topics recommended by the authors.
