OBJECTIVE AND GENERAL CRITERIA
1.1. Objective
The Foundation's aim is to evaluate the medical
procedures used as well as to develop and evaluate innovative
alternatives in order to promote the use of those that are
proven to be effective and to discourage the use of those
that are not.
1.2 Criteria
- Interest and validity.
For the Foundation, the interest of a given
line of research depends on the social impact of its objectives,
but only the rigorous application of scientific methods ensures
the validity of its results. For that reason, the Institution
believes that allotting resources to a research project that
is not absolutely rigorous is tantamount to throwing them
away, since the unreliability of its results prevents any
practical application.
- Scientific focus.
The Foundation is constantly open to questioning
existing knowledge and to studying new approaches to solve
any health problem, but it is especially demanding about the
scientific rigor of the research needed to evaluate the usefulness
of these approaches before recommending them.
For that reason, its Scientific Department uses a sequential
work system that guarantees the solidity of its efforts and
has established various mechanisms of quality control to ensure
the rigor of each one of its stages.
- Social Benefit.
Instead of following the health trends of
a given moment, the Foundation gives priority to projects
treating health problems according to their real social impact,
assessed on the basis of two objective criteria: their frequency
and the public expense they generate.
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