Bridging the gap between outputs of clinical research and utilisation towards improved healthcare outcome in Nigerian hospitals.

Abstract

Worldwide clinical research efforts do not necessarily translate to improved outcomes in clinical practice. However, with the rising challenge facing clinicians in the midst of an environment of increasing health care
choices, rising expectations and limited resources, the awareness of this lag is rising globally and health authorities in collaboration with the clinicians in many countries are taking specific measures to address this issue.While certain contributory factors to this problemcould be universal and possible solutions generalized, some other issues are specific to socio-political and economic circumstances.This article examines two critical issues of attitudinal barriers and institutional defects contributing to this gap in the Nigeria situation and suggests possiblemeasures for improvement.

“Much knowledge if out of proportion to the disposition of forces, is invalid, however formally correct it may be” TheodorAdorno (German philosopher&sociologist 1903 -1969).

“I am dying with the help of too many physicians”. Alexander the Great (356BC-323BC)