Wetenschappelijk onderzoek in de traumazorg; een advies van de Raad voor Gezondheidsonderzoek

- Within the medical sciences, traumatology is a relatively underresearched field. The Health Research Council of the Netherlands Dutch: Raad voor Gezondheidsonderzoek; RGO has issued an advisory report to the Minister of Health, Welfare and Sport aimed at reducing this shortfall in the coming years. The advisory report recommends that a specific budget is set apart for traumatology research. The assessment and selection of research submissions must have a strong subject-specific component. Innovative areas within the subject need to be chosen, for which the RGO has formulated recommendations. With this administrative breakthrough in the area of funding provision, the opportunity for research groups to carry out structured research has been created. If these recommendations are followed, then the subject specialists will face the challenge of taking the next step.