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Data and Measures in Health Services Research

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Editors:
  1. Boris Sobolev

    1. University of British Columbia Dept. Health Care & Epidemiology, Vancouver, Canada

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  2. Adrian Levy

    1. Capital District Health Authority, Dalhousie Univ Dept of Comm Health & Epi Capital District Health Authority, HALIFAX, Canada

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  3. Sarah Goring

    1. ICON plc , VANCOUVER, Canada

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  • First of its kind summation of the entire field of health services research Brings together current thinking from the many diverse disciplines and approaches which study how best to deliver health care: economics, public policy, government, healthcare administration, medicine, public health, epidemiology, statistics, information technology Authors, editors, and advisory board
  • are well known international leaders in the field of health services research

Part of the book series: Health Services Research (HEALTHSR)

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Table of contents (17 entries)

  1. A Framework for Health System Comparisons: the Health Systems in Transition (HiT) Series of the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies

    • Bernd Rechel, Suszy Lessof, Reinhard Busse, Martin McKee, Josep Figueras, Elias Mossialos et al.

  2. Challenges of Measuring the Performance of Health Systems

    • Adrian R. Levy, Boris G. Sobolev

  3. Health Services Data, Sources and Examples: The Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences Data Repository

    • Karey Iron, Kathy Sykora

  4. Health Services Data: Big Data Analytics for Deriving Predictive Healthcare Insights

    • Ankit Agrawal, Alok Choudhary

  5. Health Services Data: Managing the Data Warehouse: 25 Years of Experience at the Manitoba Centre for Health Policy

    • Mark Smith, Leslie L. Roos, Charles Burchill, Ken Turner, Dave G. Towns, Say P. Hong et al.

  6. Health Services Data: The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Claims Records

    • Ross Mullner

  7. Health Services Data: The Ontario Cancer Registry (a Unique, Linked, and Automated Population-Based Registry)

    • Sujohn Prodhan, Mary Jane King, Prithwish De, Julie Gilbert

  8. Health Services Data: Typology of Health Care Data

    • Ross M. Mullner

  9. Health Services Information: Application of Donabedian’s Framework to Improve the Quality of Clinical Care

    • A. Laurie W. Shroyer, Brendan M. Carr, Frederick L. Grover

  10. Health Services Information: Data-driven Improvements in Surgical Quality: Structure, Process, and Outcomes

    • Katia Noyes, Fergal J. Fleming, James C. Iannuzzi, John R. T. Monson

  11. Health Services Information: From Data to Policy Impact (25 Years of Health Services and Population Health Research at the Manitoba Centre for Health Policy)

    • Leslie L. Roos, Jessica S. Jarmasz, Patricia J. Martens, Alan Katz, Randy Fransoo, Ruth-Ann Soodeen et al.

  12. Health Services Information: Key Concepts and Considerations in Building Episodes of Care From Administrative Data

    • Erik Hellsten, Katie Jane Sheehan

  13. Health Services Information: Lessons Learned from the Society of Thoracic Surgeons National Database

    • David M. Shahian, Jeffrey P. Jacobs

  14. Health Services Information: Patient Safety Research Using Administrative Data

    • Chunliu Zhan

  15. Health Services Information: Personal Health Records as a Tool for Engaging Patients and Families

    • John Halamka

  16. Health Services Knowledge: Use of Datasets Compiled Retrospectively to Correctly Represent Changes in Size of Wait List

    • Paul W. Armstrong

  17. Waiting Times: Evidence of Social Inequalities in Access for Care

    • Luigi Siciliani
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About this book

The Handbook of Health Services Research is a reference for all aspects of the field of health services and outcomes research. It addresses the increasing need for comprehensive, yet balanced, information in a field that welcomes various disciplines: medicine, public health, statistics, economics, management, policy, and information technology. This well-organized reference is an indispensable source of information for everyone who seeks to develop understanding of health systems and to learn about historical, political, and socioeconomic factors that influence health policies at the global, national, regional and local level. Specifically, the Handbook helps readers: Recognize core concepts of health services and outcomes research, such as, need, access, equity, quality and safety; Become familiar with social, political, organizational, behavioral and economic theories that have influenced health systems designs; Learn about frameworks developed for evaluating the organization, financing, delivery, utilization and outcomes of health services; Get an introduction to methods of comparative effectiveness research, program evaluation, health technology assessment and health economics; Identify types and sources of data appropriate for generating valid and reliable information about the delivery of health services; Learn about strengths and weaknesses of various research designs used to study health services and policy issues. The online version of the Handbook of Health Services Research is in the format of a dynamically updated knowledge base, offering search tools, cross-referencing across chapters and linking to supplement data, other major reference works and external articles. The Handbook of Health Services Research is accessible at the level of graduate students even if it is not their focus area. This includes students with various backgrounds: medicine, public health, statistics, economics, management or information technology.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of British Columbia Dept. Health Care & Epidemiology, Vancouver, Canada

    Boris Sobolev

  • Capital District Health Authority, Dalhousie Univ Dept of Comm Health & Epi Capital District Health Authority, HALIFAX, Canada

    Adrian Levy

  • ICON plc , VANCOUVER, Canada

    Sarah Goring

About the editors

Professor Boris Sobolev is a Senior Scientist at the Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Evaluation and a faculty member at the UBC School of Public and Population Health. Since 2003, Prof. Sobolev is a Canada Research Chair in Statistics and Modeling for Health Care. In 2004/05 Boris was a Peter Wall Early Career Scholar and currently he is a Faculty Associate at the UBC Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies serving on its Adjudication Committee.

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