Objective To analyze patent applications by the top 20 hospitals in China in published papers and the advantages and disadvantages of patents owned by domestic hospitals so as to predict the development trends of their patents in the future.Methods Using data from China Patent Infonet,an analysis was made of the characteristics and technical features of the patents applied for by hospitals in the period 1985-2004,with a special focus on patent applications by the top 20 hospitals in published papers.Results It was found that in the 20-year period,patent applications by hospitals showed an upward tendency on the whole,with a marked rise in invention patents,a lack of proportion between patent applications and published papers,and a greater proportion of instruments and materials patents. Conclusion Domestic hospitals ought to give more attention to patent applications.

This article elaborated on the importance of collecting archives of drug clinical trails. Taking the drug clinical trial archives into account, the first value is the effort of clinical researchers. Sec-ond, the archives of drug clinical trials are the requirement to obtaining the evaluation before the new drug projects are approved. Third, the archives are the important evidence as getting professional certification from relevant drug research organizations and governmental officials. Making good drug clinical archive man-agement depends on the system and relevant regulations. A system should clarify the responsibilities of the collectors and managers for the archival materials. It also should make clear what are needs for collection, the rule of project numbering, and the rule of transferring. A good system also establishes the functionalities of monitoring and controlling. Last, the article pointed out the usual problem appeared in archive manage-ment of drug clinical trials.

This paper discussed the deviation of the intellectual property strategy applied in hospitals. The deviation, which is reflected on excessive enthusiasm and over-evaluation on research publication on the one hand, and negligence and insufficiency in the protection of whereas relevant patents and technique (commercial) secrets on the other hand. This deviation in the management can impede the hospital development in the long run. Measures should be taken to tackle this problem, which includesis, increasing the awareness, building up stimulation system, improving hospital cultural atmosphere, and training specialized administrators.

Objective To reveal the average pass rate of a general hospital's ethic review and common problems.Methods The records generated by the ethics committee of a hospital in 3 consecutive years were reviewed and analysed with ridit of CMH and Bootstrap statistical methods.Results The pass rate for drug clinical trial is 36.09%,medical instruments 18.42%,and subject evaluation 14.29%.Among the problems,those concerning informed consent take up 63.59%,of protocol 14.56%,of CRF 7.77% and of the others 22.820%.The domestic applicants had more problems than those abroad.Besides,the pass rate of drug trials decreased with year from 45.83% in 2006 to 19.44% in 2008,which was statistically significant (P=0.029).In terms of drug clinical trial,the pass rate of revised projects in foreign countries was significantly higher than the domestic ones (P=0.028).ConclusionEthics Committee in a hospital plays a very important role in clinical researches.And informed consent and research protocol are very important in the ethic review.

Objective To find out effective ways of assessing doctors' scientific research performance via an index system so as to conduct objective evaluation. Methods An index system for assessing doctors' scientific research performance established with the Delphian method and the subjective assessment by experts were used to evaluate and mark doctors' scientific scientific performance and a comparison was then made between the two assessment methods. Results The results of the two assessment methods are basically the same, with the assessment via the index system being superior to the subjective assessment by experts. Conclusion The assessment of doctors'scienhfic research peifomance via the index system is a satisfactory way of assessment. h is also a dynamic system needing further perfection and development.

Objective To find out effective ways of assessing doctors' scientific research performance via an index system so as to conduct objective evaluation. Methods An index system for assessing doctors' scientific research performance established with the Delphian method and the subjective assessment by experts were used to evaluate and mark doctors' scientific research performance and a comparison was then made between the two assessment methods. Results The results of the two assessment methods were basically the same , with the assessment via the index system being superior to the subjective assessment by experts.Conclusion The assessment of doctors'scientific research performance via the index system is a satisfactory way of assessment. It is also a dynamic system needing further perfection and development.

Objective To evaluate the reasonability and feasibility of evaluation index system for the Capital Research Fund for Medical Development in order to provide some preliminary practical and theo-retical fundamentals for setting up and improving an evaluation index system for the Capital Research Foun-dation for Medical Development. Methods Based on the investigation of thirty three hospital's administra-tors in Beijing,we used statistical methods to evaluate the reliability and validity of the evaluation index sys-tem. Results The first grade and second grade index were approved by more than 87.88% responders;the half-reliability of the evaluation index system was 0.7933 and the Cronbach's alpha coefficient is 0.9103, the factor analysis of the second grade indicators showed that there were four factors extracted, and the accu-mulative variance reached 78.44%. Conclusion The evaluation index system for the Capital Research Fund for Medical Development is reasonable and feasible,and the research result will provide a basis for fur-ther study.