1. Clinical Research Redirection and Optimization During a Pandemic
- Author
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Konstantin Inozemtsev, Alexander Nagrebetsky, Ludmilla Candido Santos, and Ying Hui Low
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Research design ,Optimization ,2019-20 coronavirus outbreak ,Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) ,Research methodology ,Context (language use) ,Article ,Research limitations ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,030202 anesthesiology ,Pandemic ,Publication surge ,Medicine ,Humans ,Social media ,Pandemics ,business.industry ,Research ,COVID-19 ,General Medicine ,Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine ,Risk analysis (engineering) ,Infectious disease (medical specialty) ,Research Design ,business ,030217 neurology & neurosurgery - Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic has seen many hurdles to crucial research processes, in particular those that depend on personnel interactions, in providing safeguards against the incipient infectious disease. At the same time, there was a rapid redirection of research, driven by popular and social media and demand for pandemic-related content, to the detriment of non-COVID-19 research and perhaps to COVID-19 research itself. This article provides historical context to research redirection and discusses approaches to optimizing research methodology in the setting of COVID-19 pandemic.
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- 2021