The New York City Macroscope: A New Model for Monitoring the Health of Communities
Research published in AcademyHealth’s eGEMs journal reveals a new model for monitoring the health of communities that is more efficient than traditional methods while still providing reliable information about a population’s health.
Finding Focus Through Library Resources: One Student’s Story
For those college students who are interested in medicine, health sciences and systems, or health policy, library resources can serve as a guide through the waves of information. The National Library of Medicine recently launched one such helpful guide.
Can Evidence Reviews Be Made More Responsive to Policymakers?
AcademyHealth’s Translation and Dissemination Institute is working to pilot innovative approaches to quickly, but rigorously identify and communicate evidence to inform public and private decision-making. This poster gives an overview of the Institute’s work and early lessons learned in getting research into the hands of policy makers at the right time, on the right topic, and in an accessible format.
Sampling for Patient Exit Interviews: Assessment of Methods Using Mathematical Derivation and Computer Simulations
Adjusting Health Expenditures for Inflation: A Review of Measures for Health Services Research in the United States
Preparing Nursing Home Data from Multiple Sites for Clinical Research
Nursing home research is often obstructed by the limited amount of research-quality patient data present in electronic form. In this case study, authors converted nursing home patients’ health data regarding falls and fall-related injuries into electronic forms to create a database for nursing home research using their converted data.
Automated Delineation of Hospital Service Areas and Hospital Referral Regions by Modularity Optimization
The State of Health Equity Research: Closing Knowledge Gaps to Address Inequities
Systematic, measurable, and avoidable disparities exist in health and health care. Health services researchers and the organizations that fund them have an increasing role to play in developing solutions for the factors that currently contribute to health care disparities.
Trends in Urban Health Services Research (HSR): Priorities, Gaps, and Collaborations
With input from Big Cities Health Coalition (BCHC), AcademyHealth staff used the National Library of Medicine’s Health Services Research Projects in Progress (HSRProj) database to review trends in urban health services research (HSR) within participating BCHC Cities to explore the nature of HSR undertaken in these cities, and whether there is collaboration in research among these cities.