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7 Health Services Research
Pages 79-86

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From page 79...
... The Agency for Healthcare Research and ing health care costs and clarified the contribution of new Quality together with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) technologies and lack of incentives for efficiency.4 In gen- and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
From page 80...
... By August 2003, and patient outcomes. Clinical research provides the founda- AHRQ had provided support for research training through tion for establishing diagnostic and treatment criteria based the NRSA program to nearly 800 individuals in the form of on scientific evidence.
From page 81...
... tion" may be faced by basic science and clinical researchers, as well as Table 7-2 shows the primary fields of interest of Acadthose working in health services research. emyHealth members.
From page 82...
... knowledge into practice grows. For example, the recently Other private-sector health services research careers are passed Medicare prescription drug legislation mandates in research organizations sponsored by health maintenance comparative effectiveness studies of health care services, organizations and health plans, hospital systems, pharma- including prescription drugs, increasing the need for health ceutical firms, insurers, and other major stakeholders in services researchers trained in pharmaco-economics.
From page 83...
... relied graduate programs in health services research are not sepa- solely on AHRQ for postdoctoral research training support. rately accredited and since the graduates could come from By 1998, 112 individuals had completed their postdoctoral doctoral programs reflecting a wide variety of specialties, research training.
From page 84...
... : Infomaticsa 21.0 -- National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) Data developmentb 22.3 -- $126 million; Chronic care management 9.7 Prevention 9.5 -- Extramural Prevention Research Program Bioterrorismc 0 -- $14 million; Socioeconomics of health care 12.9 ° Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)
From page 85...
... . Over threeNational Cancer Institute $151,094 3.20 16.90 National Institute on Aging $74,800 7.30 8.40 quarters of the T32 predoctoral trainees had earned their bacNational Institute of Diabetes and $70,936 3.90 7.90 calaureate degrees in one of the sciences, with 38 percent in Digestive and Kidney Diseases the social sciences, 19 percent in the health sciences, and 22 National Institute on Alcohol Abuse $65,000 15.20 7.30 percent in other scientific fields, including the physical and and Alcoholism mathematical sciences.
From page 86...
... These issues degree in the social sciences. Furthermore, it appears that are not particular to just a few NIH institutes and centers AHRQ T32 postdoctoral research training has increasingly where training support for health services research is now attracted individuals from the social sciences since 1986 (see focused, and the health services research would be better Table 7-5)


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