Contrary to widespread perceptions, ethnographic research is well suited to this endeavor as it is already a mixed-methods approach entailing both qualitative and quantitative methods (Schensul, Schensul, & Lecompte, 2013, p. 8).
Since obesity is a widespread condition, representative research is needed in order to come to reliable conclusions.
There is a widespread view that clinical research is failing to advance appropriately, particularly in comparison with other aspects of biomedical science.
On the basis of diagnostic accuracy, our data suggest that, before widespread clinical use, further research is needed of the presepsin test as a diagnostic test used in isolation to include or exclude sepsis in emergency department.
It makes sense to impose a moratorium and let society catch its collective moral breath". Clinton's move did not seem to provoke the usual tension that results when a politician intervenes in scientific matters--further indication, perhaps, of the widespread recognition that cloning research is a moral minefield.
The repeated message from research is widespread support for the use of smartphones within medicine.
As the use of PROMs becomes more widespread within certain diseases, research is underway to identify other clinical areas where PROMs collection may be feasible.
There is widespread agreement that health research is not sufficiently valued by many societies as a critical input to human and socioeconomic development.
Nevertheless, there is extensive research evidence from the NHS acute hospital sector that poor patient recruitment or retention of patients to clinical research is widespread, leading to delays in the start or completion of both academic and commercially funded research, the reduced external validity of studies, and wasted public resources and opportunity for patient participation [ 3– 6].
It also prompts discussion about how far the distinction between research and treatment can be sharply divided, in that medicine is not an exact science, and experimental trial and error, as well as risks and benefits, far from being the province of research is widespread in the practice of medicine.
Although the view that policies should be informed by research is widespread, and the pool of evidence on which to base decisions is growing, [ 1, 2], none of these positive factors have lead to the automatic uptake of research into policy making [ 7].
