Table 2 Initial characteristics of the 142 protocols
From: Impact of funding on biomedical research: a retrospective cohort study
n | % | ||
|---|---|---|---|
Field of investigation: | Epidemiology | 27 | 19 |
Diagnostic acts | 23 | 16 | |
Laboratory-based | 17 | 12 | |
Physiology | 14 | 10 | |
Drug evaluation | 12 | 8 | |
Genetics | 11 | 8 | |
Psychology-sociology | 6 | 4 | |
Radiotherapy | 5 | 4 | |
Economic evaluations | 3 | 2 | |
Sport medicine | 2 | 1 | |
Surgical strategies | 2 | 1 | |
Quality of care | 2 | 1 | |
Others | 13 | 9 | |
Investigator status: | Hospital consultant | 65 | 46 |
Professor/hospital consultant | 54 | 38 | |
Reader/hospital consultant | 12 | 8 | |
Other | 6 | 4 | |
Study design | Descriptive | 45 | 32 |
Experimental | 35 | 25 | |
Analytical | 27 | 19 | |
Not clinical | 28 | 20 | |
Not available | 2 | 1 | |
Intervention requiring ethics committee approval | Yes | 59 | 42 |
No | 75 | 53 | |
Not available | 3 | 2 | |
Place of research | Hospital | 88 | 62 |
Laboratory | 19 | 13 | |
Multiple | 25 | 18 | |
Other places | 5 | 4 | |
Centres | Single centre | 70 | 51 |
Multicentric-national | 58 | 42 | |
Multicentric-international | 7 | 5 | |
Not available | 2 | 1 | |
Overall | Total | 137 | 96 |
Missing files | 5 | 4 | |
Total | 142 | 100 |