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Objective To analyze the reliability and validity of an established Research Hospital Competitiveness Evaluation System.Methods To evaluate the research competitiveness of 34 tertiary hospitals and their departments in Shanghai using above system.The reliability and validity of the indicator system were analyzed with the Cronbach's alpha coefficient, and confirmatory factor analysis based on the structural equation model.Results After adjusting for structure of the index system via item parceling, the CFI, MFI, RMSEA AND IFI were 1.000, 1.009, 0.000 and 1.028, the Cronbach's alpha of whole set indicators system was 0.768.Conclusions The results suggested that the measured reliability and validity are both in good degree, survey results can reflect the actual competence of evaluated hospitals.