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This updated volume provides insight into health services research, as well as the emerging areas of research and the tools required to perform scientific work. The book covers topics related to performance assessment, quality improvement, health care policy, and career development. New chapters on the evaluation of non-technical skills in surgery, methods of enhancing causal inference in observational studies, and writing scientific manuscripts are also included.

Health Services Research aims to give advice on how to obtain National Institutes of Health funding and other grants, as well as breaking through the barriers to developing a career in academic surgery. This book is relevant to surgical residents and young surgical faculty, as well as anyone undertaking a career in academic surgery.

Health Services Research

1.An Introduction to Health Services Research,2.Comparative Effectiveness Research,3.Understanding Variations in the Use of Surgery,4.Health Policy Research in Surgery,5.Surgical Disparities: Beyond Non-Modifiable Patient Factors,6.Measuring Surgical Quality ,7.Using data for local quality improvement,8.Dissemination and Implementation Science,9.Studying organizational culture in surgery,10.PATIENT REPORTED OUTCOMES IN SURGICAL RESEARCH,11.Studying What Happens in the OR,12.Evaluating Non-Technical Skills in Surgery,13.Collaborative Quality Improvement,14.Machine learning and artificial INTELLIGENCE,15.Large Databases Used for Outcomes Research,16.Methods for enhancing causal inference in observational studies ,17.Systematic Review and Meta-analysis: A Clinical Exercise,18.Medical Decision-Making Research in Surgery,19.Decision Analysis and Cost-Effectiveness Research,20.Survey Research,21.Qualitative Research Methods,22.Writing scientific manuscripts,23.Disseminating Research and #VisualAbstracts,24.Engaging Policymakers to Disseminate Research,25.Being a good mentee in outcomes research,26.Finding a Mentor,27.What every outcomes research fellow should learn,28.Funding Opportunities for Outcomes Research,29.Principles of writing K and R grants,30.Choosing your first job as a surgeon and health services researcher,31.Building a Health Services Research Program.