Title: Research Pearl - FINER Criteria for New Studies<br/>
Author: Mike Witting<br/>
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Link: <a href='https://umem.org/educational_pearls/4448/'>https://umem.org/educational_pearls/4448/</a><hr/><p>Considering starting a research project? Apply the FINER criteria:</p>
<p><strong>F</strong>easible</p>
<p>                  Do you have the resources to study this? Enough patients? Support?</p>
<p><strong>I</strong>nteresting</p>
<p>                  Does it interest you enough to devote your time to it? Does it interest colleagues?</p>
<p><strong>N</strong>ovel</p>
<p>                  Would it provide new findings, or confirm, refute, or extend prior findings?</p>
<p><strong>E</strong>thical</p>
<p>                  Can you think of a way to ethically study it?</p>
<p><strong>R</strong>elevant</p>
<p>                  Consider possible outcomes of your research. Could the study advance care or policy?</p>
<fieldset><legend>References</legend><p>Adapted from Hulley SB, Cummings SR. Designing clinical research, 4th edition, Lippincott, Williams and Wilkins, 2013.</p>
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