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5 ways to increase value and reduce waste in research


January 15, 2014

Dr. David Moher played a key role in a new Lancet series on increasing value and reducing waste in biomedical research. The series documents waste in research from five principal sources, ranging from waste in deciding what research to do, through to waste because of unusable reports of research. Dr. Moher is a co-author on two of the five papers in the series.

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