When Worlds Collide
Clive Adams & Mauricio Silva de Lima
Trials 2009, 10:108
The UK has a strong tradition of innovative evaluative health care research. There are, however,
considerable forces impeding collaboration between clinicians, academics, patients and their
advocates and industry. This paper argues that, if the UK is to regain a position at the forefront of
clinical research into evaluation of care, some of these forces need to be overcome. Now, with
explicit encouragement from funders within the UK’s NHS, it is urgent that all parties discover
better ways of working together so that more broad and meaningful research can be produced in
a timely fashion.
