See also:
Eyding D, Lelgemann M, Grouven U, Harter M, Kromp M, Kaiser T, et al.
Reboxetine for acute treatment of major depression: systematic review
and meta-analysis of published and unpublished placebo and selective
serotonin reuptake inhibitor controlled trials. BMJ. 2010;341:c4737.
and the accompanying editorial and commentaries.
Jeff Harrison
Visiting Professor, RCHIR | Regenstrief Institute, Inc.| Indiana
Senior Lecturer, School of Pharmacy | University of Auckland | New
Zealand
On 10/11/2010 3:56 PM, ray kirk wrote:
> Is it research? that is the question. This comes up for me from time
to
> time, so its not new. Conducting systematic reviews, health technology
> assessments, and meta-analyses, to name a few of the methods we use,
is
> it research? I am currently having this debate with my academic
> institution who believe (well some do and quite strongly) that its not
> research. Of course, I believe it is, we create new knowledge, apply
it
> in new ways, to create new outcomes. The counter argument focuses on -
> "its secondary data analysis, isn't it?" and therefore, /ipso facto/,
> its not research. I suppose it comes down to what you define as
research
> and then - is what we do a fit for the definition. I welcome your
> thoughts on-line or off-line.
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