Main description:

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.

Feature:

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

Contents:

Adaptive Trial Design Methods in Health Services Research.- Analysis of Health Services Survey Data.- Analysis of Repeated Measures and Longitudinal Data in Health Services Research.- Applications of Comparative Effectiveness Research.- Assessing Health Systems: Evaluation.- Assessing Health Systems: Measurement.- Behavioral Economics in Health Care.- Capability Approaches to Health Benefit Measurement.- Challenges in Comparative Effectiveness Research Study Design.- Cluster Randomization and Other Random Assignment Methods in Health Services Research.- Comparative Effectiveness Research and Diagnosis.- Comparative Effectiveness Research and Health Reform in the USA.- Comparative Effectiveness Research and Preventive Interventions.- Comparative Effectiveness Research and Priority Setting.- Comparative Effectiveness Research in Developing Countries: Example of Brazil.- Comparative Effectiveness Research in Health Technology Assessment.- Comparative Effectiveness Research in Joint Replacement.- Comparative Effectiveness Research: Overview.- Comparing Drug and Non-Drug Technologies in Comparative Effectiveness Research.- Competing Risk Models in Health Services Research.- Competition and Regulation in Health Services.- Cost Data Modeling and Analysis in Health Services Research.- Cost-Effectiveness Analysis in Health Services Research.- Costs in Comparative Effectiveness Research.- Coverage with Evidence Development in Comparative Effectiveness Research.- Data Confidentiality in Health Services Research.- Decision Analytic Modeling for Health Service Evaluation.- Decisions Rules for Economic Evaluation of Health Care.- Determinants of Health Production.- Developing Guidelines for Treatment based on Comparative Effectiveness Research.-Disparities in Medical Practices.- Dissemination of Comparative Effectiveness Research.- Econometric Methods for Non-Experimental Evaluations in Health Care.- Economic Appraisal of Non-Drug Health Care Interventions.- Economic Evaluation of Health Care Diagnostics.- Economic Evaluation of Public Health Interventions.- Economics of the Healthcare Workforce.- Economics of Waiting Lists and Waiting Times in Health Care.- Efficiency in Health Care.- Ethical Frameworks and Comparative Effectiveness Research.- Evidence-Based Medicine and Comparative Effectiveness Research.- Financing of Health Systems: Health Spending and Cost Drivers.- Financing of Health Systems: Pooling of Funds and Resource Allocation.- Financing of Health Systems: Purchasing Process and Paying for Health Services.- Financing of Health Systems: Sources and Collection of Revenue.- Fundamentals of Meta-Analysis in Health Services Research.- Geographic Information System Methods in Health Services Research.- Geographical Resource Allocation using Weighted Capitation Formulae in Health Care.- HBHSR.- Health Economics in Health Services Research, Essay.- Health Insurance in Health Care.- Health Services Analysis Methods for Missing and Incomplete Data.- Health Services Information: Key Concepts and Considerations in Building Episodes of Care from Administrative Data.- Health Services Knowledge: A review of the evidence of social inequalities in waiting times for care.- Health Services Knowledge: Use of datasets compiled retrospectively to correctly represent lengths of wait for care.- Health System in Canada.- Health System in China.-Health System in Egypt.- Health System in England.- Health System in France.- Health System in Germany.- Health System in India.- Health System in Japan.- Health System in Mexico.- Health System in Netherlands.- Health System in Russian Federation.- Health System in Rwanda.- Health System in Singapore.- Health System in Switzerland.- Health System in USA.- Health System: Theories, Functions, and Goals.- Hierarchical Regression Models in Health Services Research.-  Historical Development of Comparative Effectiveness Research.- Implementation Science and Comparative Effectiveness Research.- Incorporating Patient and Public Input for Treatment in Comparative Effectiveness Research.- Indirect Comparisons and Network Meta-Analysis in Comparative Effectiveness Research.- Individualization of Treatment and Comparative Effectiveness Research.- Innovation and Comparative Effectiveness Research.- Innovative Study Designs in Comparative Effectiveness Research, e.g. Adaptive Trials.- Instrumental Variables Analysis in Health Services Research.- International Comparisons of Health Systems.- Introduction to Causal Inference Approaches in Health Services Research.- Introduction to Decision Analysis in Health Services Research.- Introduction to Medical Practice Variations and Outcomes Research.- Iterative Approaches to Health Economic Evaluation.- Knowledge Translation Case Studies in Health Services Research.- Latent Class, Latent Variable Models in Health Services Research.- Linking Comparative Effectiveness Research to Reimbursement.- Linking Micro-Economic Evaluation to Productivity Measurement in Health Care.- Macro-Economic Evaluation and General Equilibrium Modeling in Health Services Research.- Measurement of Health Care Utilization and Outcomes.- Measurement of Patient Reported Outcomes of Health Services.- Measuring Costs to Health Service and Service Users.- Medical Practice Variation Methods.- Medical Practice Variations in Acute Care Hospitalization.- Medical Practice Variations in Acute Care Hospitalization deleted as duplicate entry.-Medical Practice Variations in Acute Lower Back Pain.- Medical Practice Variations in Acute Myocardial Infarction.- Medical Practice Variations in Asthma and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease.- Medical Practice Variations in Cancer Surgery.- Medical Practice Variations in Diabetes Mellitus.- Medical Practice Variations in Drug Prescription.- Medical Practice Variations in Elective Surgery.- Medical Practice Variations in Emergency Services.- Medical Practice Variations in End-of-Life Care.- Medical Practice Variations in Healthcare Spending.- Medical Practice Variations in Heart Failure.- Medical Practice Variations in Joint Replacement in Patients with Osteoarthritis.- Medical Practice Variations in Mental Health Care.- Medical Practice Variations in Pediatric Care.-Medical Practice Variations in Primary Care.- Medical Practice Variations in Reproductive, Obstetric, and Gynaecological Care.- Medical Practice Variations in Stroke.- Medical Practice Variations in Supply of Health Services.- Medical Practice Variations: Theory of Local Standards.- Meta-Analysis of Diagnostic Test Evaluations in Health Services Research.- Micro-Simulation Modeling in Health Services Research.- Multi-criteria Decision Analysis in Health Services Research.- National Approaches to Comparative Effectiveness Research.- Network Meta-Analysis in Health Services Research.- New Statistical Methods of Combining Results in Comparative Effectiveness Research.- Observational and Quasi-Experimental Studies in Health Services Research.- Organization and Governance: Dimensions of Health Systems Coverage-Breadth, Scope, Depth.- Organization and Governance: Health System Typologies.- Organization and Governance: Patients and Populations in Health Systems.- Organization and Governance: Regulating and Planning Health Systems- Actors and Responsibilities.- Organization and Governance: Stewardship/ Governance in Health Systems.- Outcome Measures Beyond Health.- Patient-Centred Comparative Effectiveness Research.- Personalized Medicine, Sub-Groups, and Heterogeneity in Comparative Effectiveness Research.- Physical Resources in Health Systems.- Politics and Comparative Effectiveness Research.- Practice Guidelines and Practice Variation: Diagnostic Technology in Maternity Care.- Predictive Modeling in Health Services Research.- Principal-Agent Relationship in Health Care.- Productivity Costs in Health Care.- Productivity Measurement in Health Care.- Profiling of Health Services Providers.- Propensity Score Analysis in Health Services Research.- Provision of Health Services: Dental Care.- Provision of Health Services: Integrated Care.- Provision of Health Services: Long-Term Care.- Provision of Health Services: Mental Health Care.- Provision of Health Services: Pharmaceutical Care.- Provision of Health Services: Primary/Ambulatory Care.- Provision of Health Services: Public Health.- Provision of Health Services: Specialized Ambulatory Care/Inpatient Care.- Qualitative Health Services Research.- Randomized Clinical Trials in Comparative Effectiveness of Health Services.- Remuneration Methods and Incentives for Health Care Providers.- Risk Adjustment in Health Services.- Shared Decision-Making for Medical Practice Variations in Elective Surgeries and Tests.- Social Network Analysis in Health Services Research.- Social Value of a Quality-Adjusted Life-Year: Concept in Health Services Research.- Socioeconomic Inequalities in Health Care.- Sources of Data for Comparative.- Effectiveness Research.- Spatial Data Modeling in Health Services Research.- Strategies and Tools to Manage Variation in Regional Governance Systems.- Survey Methods in Health Services Research.- Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis in Comparative Effectiveness Research.- Transition Models in Health Services Research.- Two-Part Models for Zero-Modified Count and Semicontinuous Data.- Using Thresholds for Priority Setting in Health Care.- Value of Information Analysis in Health Services Research.- Variations in Healthcare Spending and Quality among Institutions.- Volume-Outcome Analysis in Health Services Research.- Workforce and Remuneration in Health Systems.