MRI efficacy and effectiveness research: who needs it and who pays for it?

Health care reform has made quality efficacy research in MRI important to an increasing number of audiences. Historically, the deficit of quality outcomes research in MRI was due to difficulties in study design, lack of funding, disincentives for researches and funding sources, and poor coordination. These issues would be best addressed by the formation of an MRI implementation group that would coordinate funding, planning, and dissemination of the outcomes research efforts.