The characteristics of health care research have changed significantly over the last decade. The most relevant change, perhaps, concerns the deliberate search for a link between the ability to discover with the ability to produce. As Cresson puts it “we are moving from research based on performance for its sake, to research which focuses on the social and economic problems which face society today” [1]. Health care, seen from the point of view of society, therefore involves the contribution of more disciplines than medicine alone. And this is where health services research, the focus of this book, becomes important.
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Miranda, D.R. (2002). Funding and Support. In: Sibbald, W.J., Bion, J.F. (eds) Evaluating Critical Care. Update in Intensive Care Medicine, vol 35. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-56719-3_11
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