HSR Resources & Methods

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

This poster, presented at the 2016 AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting, explores the current extent of information on global health services, policy, and systems research in HSRProj. It then suggests opportunities to leverage more than two decades of experience to expand HSRProj as a comprehensive database of global HSR.