Academic medicine: time for reinvention

doi:10.1136/bmj.328.7430.48-a

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Jonathan Grant, associate programme director (jgrant@rand.org),
Steve Hanney, research fellow,
Martin Buxton, professor of health economics

RAND Europe, Grafton House, Cambridge CB5 8DD
Health Economics Research Group (HERG), Brunel University, Uxbridge, Middlesex UB8 3PH

EDITOR—We agree with Bell that advocating funding for clinical research needs to become evidence based.1

With colleagues we recently explored the relations between basic research, clinical research, and clinical practice.2 3 In the first report we tried to replicate Comroe and Dripps's seminal study as reported in Science in 1976,4 tracing back from current clinical practice …