Discussion on the causes and countermeasures for the problems in budget execution of medical research projects / 中华医学科研管理杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective Summarize main problems identified in the budget execution of medical research projects,analyze main causes for proposing improvement countermeasures in daily practice.Methods Based on the auditing work of scientific research expenditure,administrative policies,as well as existed studies,this study conducted analysis and discussions from the perspective of research administrators.Results In this study,budget execution problems are classified into four categories.During recent years,updates and changes in the policy of research funding played important role in solving or relieving some problems in budget execution.However,some factors related to the problems still existed,thus,we put forward some suggestions on the management of scientific research funds from four aspectsmulti-department collaboration,promoting the construction of scientific research funds management platform,budget execution training and implementing the financial assistant system.Conclusions The management of scientific research funds is a cooperative activity involving the administrative department of research projects,undertaking units,research groups etc.The unit which undertakes scientific research should coordinate many other departments to strengthen the supervision and management,improve the efficiency of the use of scientific research funds.