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Inclusion
Research projects that adhere to the following two inclusion criteria
will be selected for HSRProj.
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A
research project must be ongoing or the project’s end date must
fall within 6 months prior to the date the project will appear on
the HSRProj database.
The
purpose of HSRProj is to enhance access to ongoing research projects
before the results are available in a published form. Therefore, to
allow time for principal investigators to complete their projects
and publish findings, records remain in the database for a period
of four years after the project’s end date. The elapsed time
between the completion of a research project and the publication of
the research findings can range from 6 to 24 months. The findings
of a recently completed, but not yet published, health services research
project can be especially valuable to health policy makers and other
researchers. By listing ongoing and recently completed research projects,
HSRProj can provide researchers and policy makers with a vital link
to information that is not readily available from other sources.
Clinical trials (including randomized controlled trials) of the effectiveness
of health care technologies/interventions are included. Health
services research includes studies of the effectiveness of health
care
technologies/interventions in "real-world", general or routine
settings.
Exclusion
Criteria
Research projects that meet one of the following criteria are excluded
from HSRProj:
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animal
studies
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clinical trials, including randomized controlled trials, of the efficacy
of health care technologies/interventions
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health services and demonstration projects that do not have a research
or evaluation component.
Studies
that examine the efficacy of technologies or interventions in highly controlled
settings, laboratories, or carefully managed clinical trial protocols
with narrowly defined patient groups are not health services research.
National
Priorities for the Assessment of Clinical Conditions and Medical Technologies,
M.E. Lara and C. Goodman (Eds.), Institute of Medicine (1990); Effectiveness
and Outcomes in Health Care, K.A. Heithoff and K.N. Lohr, (Eds.), Institute
of Medicine, (1990). Association for Health Services Research (1992).
HSRProj
is a joint effort of AcademyHealth and the Cecil G. Sheps Center for
Health Services Research, University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with funding from the National
Library of Medicine.
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