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Quality Assessment of Medical Research and Education

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 October 2009

Håkan Eriksson
Håkan Eriksson
Affiliation:
Karolinska Hospital and the Swedish Medical Research Council
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Abstract

Different aspects of the process of evaluating research and education are discussed, using the discipline of medicine as a model. The focus is primarily on potential problems in the design of an evaluation. The most important aspects of an assessment are: to create confidence in the evaluation among scientists and/or teachers who are being assessed before beginning; to find experts for whom the scientists and/or teachers have professional respect; to choose assessment methods in relation to the focus, level, and objectives of the evaluation; and to make the report of the evaluation's findings short and explicit.

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General Essays
Information
International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care , Volume 8 , Issue 3 , Summer 1992 , pp. 479 - 489
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1992

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