[Research--a marginal activity? A survey of amount of research at Norwegian hospitals excluding university clinics].
Only a small amount of research and development is carried out at Norwegian hospitals not belonging to the university system. Such activities represent less than 2% of the total work performed at these hospitals. However, as much as 41% of the hospital departments reported doing some research and development work. Nevertheless, measured in terms of the time spent on research and development, such activity constituted only a small part of the total departmental activities and was widely dispersed among the staff. In 1989 the number of persons involved was 949, of which three of five were physicians. They carried out a total 67 research and development man-years. About 40% of the research and development activities took place at the 13 'central hospitals' and 60% at the 95 smaller peripheral hospitals. During the last ten years no major change has occurred either in the number of research active physicians or in the amount of research carried out. The research at the hospitals surveyed amounts to less than 1% of the total medical research and development in Norway in 1989, which was about 2,000 man-years. On average, the academic personnel at the hospitals authored or co-authored about 400 publications annually in the 1987-89 period. It appears that at hospitals not having the status of university clinics research is still not accepted as a regular part of the overall activities at these institutions. This is partly due to scarcity of resources in the Norwegian health sector and to the need to give priority to clinical activities, care of patients, etc.
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NAVFs utredningsinstitutt, Oslo.
D006748:Hospital Departments / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D009664:Norway; D010564:Personnel, Hospital / Q000193:education*; D012106:Research / Q000706:statistics & numerical data* / Q000639:trends; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D000078329:Workforce
Forskning--en marginal aktivitet? Kartlegging av omfanget av forskning ved norske sykehus utenfor universitetsklinikkene.