Challenges in developing national orthopedic health research agendas in the Netherlands: process overview and recommendations

Abstract

- Growing demand for clinical research to improve evidence-based medicine in daily medical practice led to healthcare evaluation, which assesses the effectiveness of the existing care. The first step is identifying and priori-tizing the most important evidence uncertainties. A health research agenda (HRA) can be valuable and helps determine funding and resource allocation, aiding researchers and poli-cymakers to design successful research programs and imple-ment the results in daily medical practice. We provide an overview of the development process of the first 2 HRAs within orthopedic surgery in the Netherlands and the follow-ing research process. In addition, we developed a checklist with recommendations for the future development of an HRA. This perspective guides the development of high -quality and widely supported nationwide HRAs, including preparatory actions. This improves the uptake of evidence uncertainties in a successful research program and dissemi-nates evidence-based literature in daily medical practice to improve patient care.