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Wells R, Whitworth JA. Assessing outcomes of health and medical research: do we measure what counts or count what we can measure?. Aust New Zealand Health Policy. 2007;4:14doi: 10.1186/1743-8462-4-14.
Wells, R., & Whitworth, J. A. (2007). Assessing outcomes of health and medical research: do we measure what counts or count what we can measure?. Australia and New Zealand health policy, 414. https://doi.org/10.1186/1743-8462-4-14
Wells, Robert, and Whitworth, Judith A. "Assessing outcomes of health and medical research: do we measure what counts or count what we can measure?." Australia and New Zealand health policy vol. 4 (2007): 14. doi: https://doi.org/10.1186/1743-8462-4-14
Wells R, Whitworth JA. Assessing outcomes of health and medical research: do we measure what counts or count what we can measure?. Aust New Zealand Health Policy. 2007 Jun 28;4:14. doi: 10.1186/1743-8462-4-14. PMID: 17597545; PMCID: PMC1929109.
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Aust New Zealand Health Policy. 2007 Jun 28;4:14. doi: 10.1186/1743-8462-4-14.

Assessing outcomes of health and medical research: do we measure what counts or count what we can measure?.

Australia and New Zealand health policy

Robert Wells, Judith A Whitworth

Affiliations

  1. Menzies Centre for Health Policy, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, 2601, Australia.

PMID: 17597545 PMCID: PMC1929109 DOI: 10.1186/1743-8462-4-14

Abstract

Governments world wide are increasingly demanding outcome measures to evaluate research investment. Health and medical research outputs can be considered as gains in knowledge, wealth and health. Measurement of the impacts of research on health are difficult, particularly within the time frames of granting bodies. Thus evaluations often measure what can be measured, rather than what should be measured. Traditional academic metrics are insufficient to demonstrate societal benefit from public investment in health research. New approaches that consider all the benefits of research are needed.

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