I am planning to perform a study on barriers to research and publciation by private doctors. What do you think are the obstacles? Some examples I can think of are motivation, funding, status and creditability.
Time, commitment, access to related literature, research methodology, training in scientific writing, collecting good photographs and illustrations, problems related to data acquisition/mining, statistical work up also are spheres where a private clinician will face issues.
Perhaps conflict of interest, fiduiciary relationships and IRB approvals
Some of these are technical issues. For those with the motivation and the know-how, do you think the academic world or journal publishers have any bias against research done in private practice?
Admission bias would be a single most issue in restricted enviornment
Hi, Rooban. You seem to have some particular insight in this. Can you please provide or details?
When a doctor in private practice starts to work on a particular topic, by nature, his patients will be restricted in terms of a speciality or a subspeciality and often limits to his area of practice like ortho or cardiac. Even in this it shall be further limited in terms of socioeconomic, geopolitical (more often) andsuch factors that could be influencend by his/her sphere of practice. Lab tests in such environment will be without qualitycontrol and often outsourced, with little or no control. All this may inherently affect the study. Editors may have an eye to avoid such bias and of course, ethics will also be carefully looked upon. Apart from these factors, i do not feel that there would be any issue
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