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Table 2 Thematic framework: Factors explaining what influences conducting and implementing priority-setting results

From: Priority-setting in health research in Iran: a qualitative study on barriers and facilitators

Facilitator

Facilitator and barrier

Barrier

Theme 1: Managerial factors

 Meritocracy in management

Individual willingness

Rapid turnover of managers

 Commitment of managers

 

Scarcity of knowledge about HRPS

Theme 2: structural factors

 Publicising HRPS results

Role of media

Centralised decision-making

 Using an automated system

 

Integration of heath with medical education

  

Lack of a national innovation system

  

Stewardship – absence of a research map (research puzzles)

  

Stewardship – inappropriate leadership of research

  

Stewardship – lack of transparency in other sectors

  

Stewardship – no standardisation

  

Lack of evidence about research gaps

  

No relation with industries

Theme 3: Motivational factors

 Considering intellectual property

Limiting research budgets to priorities

Inefficiency of faculties’ promotion criteria

  

Narrow time limit for PS

Theme 4: Process factors

 Defining reliable PS criteria

PS approaches

Considering PS as a one-time activity

 Alignment with high level rule

 

Generalisation

 Stakeholders – ways of engagement

 

Ignoring appealing mechanisms

 Stakeholders – end users

 

Lack of a efficacious evaluation system

 Stakeholders – NGOs

 

Scientific autonomy

 Stakeholders – funders

  

 Stakeholders – policy-makers

  

 Defining scope of PS

  
  1. HPSR health research priority-setting, PS priority-setting