What Does Conducting a Clinical Study Teach You? Insights to Improve Care and Enhance Collaboration

February 1, 2019
JAMDA

In setting out to conduct a research study, one contemplates certain goals, research questions, or hypotheses. As a study proceeds, the process of investigation sometimes provides the researcher with insights that are as important, and sometimes more important, than the insights gained by the study's formal results. Yet, we have no channels through which to report on those by-product insights. I attempt just that in this editorial.