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Table 4 Impact on decision making by the projects completed by 2006 and 2007

From: An assessment of health research impact in Iran

Questions

Percentage of relevant projects, % (standard error)

Percentage of relevant projects that have been utilized, %a (standard error)

Utilization in systematic reviews

NA

12 (0.04)

Utilization in clinical guideline or public health guideline

71 (0.03)

11.7 (0.03)

Utilization in health technology assessment

34.0 (0.03)

1.6 (0.008)

Utilization in educational content for patient and/or the public

34.4 (0.02)

9.8 (0.02)

Utilization in policy briefs

27.5 (0.02)

2.0 (0.01)

Utilization in policy bills, guidelines and/or legislations of executive organizations

47.2 (0.04)

16.3 (0.03)

Utilization in book compilation

96.6 (0.009)

8.2 (0.03)

Utilization in development of educational content for professional groups (education or continuing education of academic students)

93.2 (0.02)

3.4 (0.02)

Utilization in policymaking by the Health Ministry (directly or indirectly)

85.2 (0.02)

5.3 (0.01)

Utilization in policymaking outside the Health Ministry (directly or indirectly)

81 (0.02)

0.9 (0.006)

Utilization in decision making in local contexts

87.7 (0.02)

29.0 (0.006)

Registration of domestic patents

77.1 (0.02)

1.5 (0.008)

Registration of inventions or foreign patents

76 (0.02)

0.5 (0.003)

  1. aAll the percentages in the column are dependent on the previous column
  2. NA: The researchers believe that any type of project can be relevant in terms of being utilized in systematic reviews