Research Activity
health services research
Subclass of:
Biomedical Research;
Health Planning
Definitions related to health services research:
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(healthcare research) To perform one or more operations on information for conducting scientific investigations to obtain health care knowledge. Use of the data iincludes basic and applied research such as biomedical, population origin or ancestry, translational research, and disease, discipline, specialty specific healthcare research and clinical trial research.NCI Health Level 7 VocabularyU.S. National Cancer Institute, 2018
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A multidisciplinary field of inquiry that examines the costs, quality, accessibility, delivery, organization, financing, and outcomes of health care services.NCI ThesaurusU.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
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A type of study designed to evaluate the delivery, processes, management, organization or financing of health care. (ClinicalTrials.gov)CDISC TerminologyClinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC), 2021
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The integration of epidemiologic, sociological, economic, and other analytic sciences in the study of health services. Health services research is usually concerned with relationships between need, demand, supply, use, and outcome of health services. The aim of the research is evaluation, particularly in terms of structure, process, output, and outcome. (From Last, Dictionary of Epidemiology, 2d ed)NLM Medical Subject HeadingsU.S. National Library of Medicine, 2021
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