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HSM 4410: Research Methods for Health Services (Assignment)

This guide provides a comprehensive look at resources that support the Health Services Research Methods course

Sources of Health Services Information and Research

HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH

  • HSR Information Central (HSRIC) - A research portal of health services research resources providing numerous Internet links to data, funding announcements, reports, podcasts, discussion groups, from the National Information Center on Health Services Research and Health Care Technology (NICHSR) at the Natonal library of Medicine (NLM)
  • Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality  - Their mission is to produce evidence to make health care safer, higher quality, more accessible, equitable, and affordable. Look for the tabs for  Research tools, data and health information
  • Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute - Conducts nonproprietary public-interest research on preventing, diagnosing, and treating major health problems
  • RAND Health - Detailed reports on Healthcare Costs & Financing

HEALTH POLICY

HEALTH INFORMATICS / HEALTH TECHNOLOGY

  • HealthIT (Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology)
  • Promoting Interoperability Programs (formerly EHR Incentive Programs: Medicare and Medicaid Electronic Health Care Record Incentive Programs)

CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS / EVIDENCE BASED HEALTHCARE

HEALTH DISPARITIES / MINORITY HEALTH

 HEALTH SERVICES ASSOCIATIONS

PATIENT SAFETY

STATISTICAL DATA