NIH disease funding levels and burden of disease.
<h4>Background</h4>An analysis of NIH funding in 1996 found that the strongest predictor of funding, disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs), explained only 39% of the variance in funding. In 1998, Congress requested that the Institute of Medicine (IOM) evaluate priority-setting criteria...
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2011-02-01
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Series: | PLoS ONE |
Online Access: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/21383981/pdf/?tool=EBI |