Introduction to Health Services Research

2 credits · Graduate School

This course assists the student in acquiring skills for health services research (HSR). The course addresses common outcomes of HSR, as well as the knowledge and skills needed to evaluate the effectiveness of health service interventions within clinical settings, organizations and systems. The student will develop expertise in the design, analysis, and execution of core HSR methodologies from the perspective of safety and quality. The complex nature of health service interventions is emphasized within the context of implementation science. Strategies of attending to the execution and analysis of multilevel, multi-organizational studies will be ad-dressed. Prerequisite: completion of Research Design, and Statistics I and II. [2] SPRING