HPM 276 [Summer 1] Methods and Applications in Health Services Research*

This course introduces students to health services research. The course includes sessions on both methodologic techniques and applications. Individual sessions will be devoted to research design, analyses of large databases, cost effectiveness analyses, survey methodology, assessment of health status, assessment of quality, measurement of access to care, risk adjustment, and statistical techniques pertinent to health services research. There will also be sessions reviewing managerial applications such as case management, use of hospital information systems, and targeting for high-risk patients. Students will be asked to critically review several papers during some of the sessions. In the final part of the course, students will work in small groups to critique a "grant proposal designed to study an important problem in health services or health policy research."   

Instructors: Dr. Arnold Epstein
3:30 p.m.- 5:20 p.m. (Mon.- Fri.) 
Lectures. 2.5 credits.