The researchers urged caution and identified the need for robust, peer reviewed supporting evidence before recommending change or public health campaigns.
It's not just the academic institutions we have; it's the whole ecosystem of federal funding, peer review, philanthropic support and industry innovation.
Reporting should enable assessment and replication of results, allow independence and neutrality, be subjected to peer review, and support objectivity of reviewers.
One judge argued that a lack of scientific testing and peer review in support of fingerprint evidence should be cause for excluding fingerprint evidence (United States v. Plaza, 2002), although this opinion was later reversed by the same judge.
This paper describes how SWoRD (scaffolded writing and rewriting in the discipline), a web-based reciprocal peer review system, supports writing practice, particularly for large content courses in which writing is considered critical but not feasibly included.
Reciprocal peer review with supported quality improvement was feasible and effective in stimulating quality improvement activity but resulted in only modest improvements in lung cancer treatment rates and patient experience.
This new reconfiguration was inspired by the findings of the King's Fund report [ 16], which highlighted that a referral management strategy built around peer review, and supported by consultant feedback, with clear referral criteria and evidence-based guidelines is likely to be the most cost and clinically effective.
In addition, this PA will complement the Rapid Access to Intervention Development (RAID) program http://dtp.nci.nih.gov/docs/raid/raid_index.html by providing an initiative with accelerated peer review and funding to support the clinical and laboratory costs of early clinical testing to ensure the timely development of new therapeutic approaches.
This paper presents the outline of a cluster-randomized trial which has been peer reviewed and support by a national funding organization – Federal Ministry of Education and Research BMBFF) – and is approved by an ethics commission.
Publishing pressures will be diminished, too, with researchers freed from the need to repeatedly jump over the hurdles of peer review to garner support, allowing them instead to focus on adventurous, longer-term research.
