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8 Health Services Research
Pages 103-110

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From page 103...
... Assessing the impact of the latest scientific knowledge. Meeting the challenges of health services on population health requires health services translation and implementation research requires additional researchers to go beyond disease outcomes to examine health disciplinary breadth, drawing on areas of organizational and status and health-related quality of life outcomes, assess operations research, psychology, marketing, education, and delivery system quality and efficiency, as well as focus atten- adult learning.
From page 104...
... assess comparative effectiveness and actively disseminate It should be noted that health services research in focused areas like 3 the results. mental health services, alcohol and drug abuse treatment services, and vet erans' health care continued throughout this time.
From page 105...
... Table 8-1 shows the distribution of No national statistical system reports on the size and com- health services researchers by employment sector. position of the health services research workforce (Moore AcademyHealth membership has greater female repand McGinnis, 2009; Pittman and Holve, 2009)
From page 106...
... No data are available on graduates of doctoral Operations Research 1 programs who are not funded by the NRSA program but who Law 0.7 plan to pursue health services research careers. It would be Business Administration 0.6 expected that these numbers far exceed NRSA recipients, as Anthropology 0.4 they do in other health research fields.
From page 107...
... Of the employed NRSA T32 predoctoral trainees, about Half of the AHRQ NRSA T32 postdoctoral trainees half (48 percent) reported having received post-training with research doctorates earned them in the social sciences research support, and about 77 percent reported at least one (sociology, economics, or the other social sciences)
From page 108...
... About 60 percent of the employed NRSA $779 million; T32 postdoctoral trainees with clinical doctorates reported • Veterans Health Administration (VHA) -- $75 million; having received post-training research support, and about and 78 percent had at least one scientific journal publication fol- • The Department of Defense (DoD)
From page 109...
... health services research professionals to lead and manage Thus there is a need for more effective health care delivery research programs, to support policy analysis and develop- practices to ensure effective and evidence-based care, and to ment, and to work with managers and providers in the VA reduce waste and unnecessary risk to patients. and DoD health care delivery systems.
From page 110...
... 2009. The health services research workforce: training, from the current level of approximately 2 percent current stock.


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