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Reed DA, Cook DA, Beckman TJ, Levine RB, Kern DE, Wright SM. Association between funding and quality of published medical education research. JAMA 2007;298:1002–1009.
After the National Academy of Science recommended that education journals and federal funding agencies should identify reliable and valid metrics for scoring the quality of medical education research, a Medical Education Research Study Quality Instrument (MERSQI) was designed and applied to 13 peer review journals (analyzing 210 experimental, quasi-experimental, and observational studies). A validity study of MERSQI and a cross sectional study using the instrument to identify the association between funding and study quality found a significant association between funding and the quality of research studies, providing evidence to support the call to increase funding for medical research.
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