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The clinical relevance and newsworthiness of NIHR HTA-funded research: a cohort study

The clinical relevance and newsworthiness of NIHR HTA-funded research: a cohort study
The clinical relevance and newsworthiness of NIHR HTA-funded research: a cohort study
Objective

To assess the clinical relevance and newsworthiness of the UK National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Health Technology Assessment (HTA) Programme funded reports.

Study design

Retrospective cohort study.

Setting

The cohort included 311 NIHR HTA Programme funded reports publishing in HTA in the period 1 January 2007–31 December 2012. The McMaster Online Rating of Evidence (MORE) system independently identified the clinical relevance and newsworthiness of NIHR HTA publications and non-NIHR HTA publications. The MORE system involves over 4000 physicians rating publications on a scale of relevance (the extent to which articles are relevant to practice) and a scale of newsworthiness (the extent to which articles contain news or something clinicians are unlikely to know).

Main outcome measures

The proportion of reports published in HTA meeting MORE inclusion criteria and mean average relevance and newsworthiness ratings were calculated and compared with publications from the same studies publishing outside HTA and non-NIHR HTA funded publications.

Results

286/311 (92.0%) of NIHR HTA reports were assessed by MORE, of which 192 (67.1%) passed MORE criteria. The average clinical relevance rating for NIHR HTA reports was 5.48, statistically higher than the 5.32 rating for non-NIHR HTA publications (mean difference=0.16, 95% CI 0.04 to 0.29, p=0.01). Average newsworthiness ratings were similar between NIHR HTA reports and non-NIHR HTA publications (4.75 and 4.70, respectively; mean difference=0.05, 95% CI ?0.18 to 0.07, p=0.402). NIHR HTA-funded original research reports were statistically higher for newsworthiness than reviews (5.05 compared with 4.64) (mean difference=0.41, 95% CI 0.18 to 0.64, p=0.001).

Conclusions

Funding research of clinical relevance is important in maximising the value of research investment. The NIHR HTA Programme is successful in funding projects that generate outputs of clinical relevance.
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Wright, David, Young, A., Iserman, E., Maeso, R., Turner, S., Haynes, R.B. and Milne, R. (2014) The clinical relevance and newsworthiness of NIHR HTA-funded research: a cohort study. BMJ Open, 4 (5), 1-8. (doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2013-004556). (PMID:24812191)

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Abstract

Objective

To assess the clinical relevance and newsworthiness of the UK National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Health Technology Assessment (HTA) Programme funded reports.

Study design

Retrospective cohort study.

Setting

The cohort included 311 NIHR HTA Programme funded reports publishing in HTA in the period 1 January 2007–31 December 2012. The McMaster Online Rating of Evidence (MORE) system independently identified the clinical relevance and newsworthiness of NIHR HTA publications and non-NIHR HTA publications. The MORE system involves over 4000 physicians rating publications on a scale of relevance (the extent to which articles are relevant to practice) and a scale of newsworthiness (the extent to which articles contain news or something clinicians are unlikely to know).

Main outcome measures

The proportion of reports published in HTA meeting MORE inclusion criteria and mean average relevance and newsworthiness ratings were calculated and compared with publications from the same studies publishing outside HTA and non-NIHR HTA funded publications.

Results

286/311 (92.0%) of NIHR HTA reports were assessed by MORE, of which 192 (67.1%) passed MORE criteria. The average clinical relevance rating for NIHR HTA reports was 5.48, statistically higher than the 5.32 rating for non-NIHR HTA publications (mean difference=0.16, 95% CI 0.04 to 0.29, p=0.01). Average newsworthiness ratings were similar between NIHR HTA reports and non-NIHR HTA publications (4.75 and 4.70, respectively; mean difference=0.05, 95% CI ?0.18 to 0.07, p=0.402). NIHR HTA-funded original research reports were statistically higher for newsworthiness than reviews (5.05 compared with 4.64) (mean difference=0.41, 95% CI 0.18 to 0.64, p=0.001).

Conclusions

Funding research of clinical relevance is important in maximising the value of research investment. The NIHR HTA Programme is successful in funding projects that generate outputs of clinical relevance.

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Accepted/In Press date: 1 April 2014
Published date: 7 May 2014
Organisations: Faculty of Medicine

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Local EPrints ID: 368195
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/368195
PURE UUID: 26e3fd55-36c3-4130-819d-9fa9bccebce8
ORCID for R. Milne: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-5117-4380

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Date deposited: 20 Aug 2014 12:01
Last modified: 15 Mar 2024 02:58

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Author: David Wright
Author: A. Young
Author: E. Iserman
Author: R. Maeso
Author: S. Turner
Author: R.B. Haynes
Author: R. Milne ORCID iD

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