[Biomedical research in the Netherlands: high quality due to cooperation between University Medical Centers and non-academic large teaching hospitals].

Objective: Most of the biomedical research is performed in University Medical Centers (UMC's). Increasingly, however, biomedical research is also done in non-academic large teaching hospitals, united in the Organization for Topclinical Hospitals (STZ) in the Netherlands. The objective of this study was to compare citation scores of biomedical publications from UMC's and STZ hospitals.

Methods for the evaluation of hospital cooperation activities (Systematic review protocol).

Background: Hospital partnerships, mergers and cooperatives are arrangements frequently seen as a means of improving health service delivery. Many of the assumptions used in planning hospital cooperatives are not stated clearly and are often based on limited or poor scientific evidence.

Methods: This is a protocol for a systematic review, following the Cochrane EPOC methodology.