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ArticleInquiry : a journal of medical care organization, provision and financing

Status of Research and Development Within Dental Institutes of Pakistan.

Hina Zafar Raja, Muhammad Nasir Saleem, Ayesha Noor, Ayesha Usmani, Junaid S Khan

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Article in Inquiry : a journal of medical care organization, provision and financing. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Hina Zafar RajaDepartment of Prosthodontics, 462516CMH Lahore Medical College and Institute of Dentistry, NUMS Rawalpindi, Lahore, Pakistan.ORCID 0000-0002-8998-0636
Muhammad Nasir SaleemOperative Dentistry, 462516CMH Lahore Medical College and Institute of Dentistry, NUMS Rawalpindi, Lahore, Pakistan.ORCID 0000-0002-0848-4316
Ayesha NoorDepartment of Prosthodontics, 462516CMH Lahore Medical College and Institute of Dentistry, NUMS Rawalpindi, Lahore, Pakistan.
Ayesha UsmaniDepartment of Anesthesiology, 383426Agha Khan University Hospital, Karachi, Pakistan.
Junaid S KhanSchool of Health Professionals' Education and Postgraduate Studies, CMH Lahore Medical College and Institute of Dentistry, NUMS Rawalpindi, Islamabad, Pakistan.
CMH Lahore Medical College and Institute of Dentistry · PKAga Khan University Hospital · PK

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Health sector institutes of Pakistan can play a pivotal part in improving the status of health sciences. This can be achieved by facilitating research and innovation facilities. It is a need of the day to emphasize academicians and institutional administrations to take keen interest in this regard. Knowledge of the present research and development conditions within higher education institutions may help in policy development and fund allocations at the required levels. Therefore, the objective of this study is to evaluate the status of research and development within dental Institutes of Pakistan. A 30 itemed questionnaire was e mailed/posted to all institutional heads of all registered and recognized dental institutes of Pakistan. Response rate was 62% showing lack of administrational interest. Insufficient infrastructure, inadequate research planning, execution and intellectual property management was recorded. It can be concluded that higher education dental institutions of Pakistan are in need of deeper administrational and educational input to gear up the progress of health sector in this direction.

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Financial ManagementEducation, DentalHumansPakistanResearchSchools, DentalSurveys and Questionnaireseducationorganization and administrationpolicyresearch

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PMID35527702
PMCPMC9083037
OpenAlexW4229459126

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