UMEM Educational Pearls

Category: Misc

Title: Research Pearl - FINER Criteria for New Studies

Posted: 3/12/2024 by Mike Witting, MD (Emailed: 3/28/2024) (Updated: 3/28/2024)
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Considering starting a research project? Apply the FINER criteria:

Feasible

Do you have the resources to study this? Enough patients? Support?

Interesting

Does it interest you enough to devote your time to it? Does it interest colleagues?

Novel

Would it provide new findings, or confirm, refute, or extend prior findings?

Ethical

Can you think of a way to ethically study it?

Relevant

Consider possible outcomes of your research. Could the study advance care or policy?

Adapted from Hulley SB, Cummings SR. Designing clinical research, 4th edition, Lippincott, Williams and Wilkins, 2013.