早期诊断研究的分类学,以指导研究设计和资金优先考虑
Emma Whitfield1,2, Becky White3, Spiros Denaxas4,5,6,7
1ECHO (Epidemiology of Cancer Healthcare & Outcomes), Department of Behavioural Science and Health, Institute of Epidemiology and Health Care, UCL (University College London), 1-19 Torrington Place, London, WC1E 7HB, UK. emma.whitfield.20@ucl.ac.uk.
British journal of cancer
|October 4, 2023
概括
这项研究提出了一个新的框架,以指导早期诊断的研究,特别是癌症. 它帮助研究人员和资助者设计研究,以改善疾病的诊断方式和时间.
科学领域:
- 医疗保健服务研究 医疗服务研究
- 诊断科学 诊断科学 诊断科学
- 临床流行病学临床流行病学
背景情况:
- 改善早期诊断是研究人员和资助者的一个关键目标.
- 许多研究使用各种方法和数据探索诊断过程,通常侧重于电子健康记录和癌症.
- 需要一个结构化的方法来综合现有研究和指导未来的研究.
研究的目的:
- 为设计和合成早期诊断研究提出一个分类学.
- 解决有关诊断过程中的可能性,启动,进展,持续时间和潜在改进的关键问题.
- 提供适用于瘤和非瘤疾病的框架.
主要方法:
- 文献综述和现有早期诊断研究的综合.
- 基于五个核心研究问题制定分类学.
- 确定研究研究设计家庭来解决每个问题.
- 探索与研究家庭和健康不平等有关的三个额外问题.
主要成果:
- 一个拟议的分类学与五个关键问题,以指导早期诊断研究.
- 定义诊断研究研究设计的家族,评估他们的贡献和局限性.
- 确定了关于诊断及时性不平等的进一步研究问题.
- 已证明对癌症和其他疾病的适用性.
结论:
- 拟议的框架为早期诊断研究提供了一个结构化的方法.
- 它可以指导未来研究的设计,并为研究资金优先事项提供信息.
- 该分类学促进了对诊断过程研究的全面理解和综合.
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