Health Services Research

Health services research (HSR) examines how people get access to doctors and healthcare services, how much care costs and what happens to patients as a result of this care. Studies in HSR also investigate how social factors, finances, organizational structures and processes, medical technology, and personal behaviors affect access.

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Publications

Patterns of health care utilization for low back pain.

Predicting all-cause risk of 30-day hospital readmission using artificial neural networks.

Predicting need for advanced illness or palliative care in a primary care population using electronic health record data.

Predictors of care seeking in women with urinary incontinence.

Primary care diabetes bundle management: 3-year outcomes for microvascular and macrovascular events.

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Research Studies

Developing Clinically-Viable Predictive Readmission Risk Models and Evaluating Clinical Implementation

Implementing Universal Lynch Syndrome Screening Across Multiple Healthcare Systems: Identifying Strategies to Facilitate and Maintain Programs in Different Organizations Contexts

Improving Cancer Care

Open and Ask Study

Severe Mental Illness and Patterns of Emergency Department Utilization

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Featured Investigator

Dorothy Hung

Ph.D., M.A., MPH

Associate Scientist

Dorothy Hung, Ph.D., is Associate Scientist at the Palo Alto Medical Foundation Research Institute.

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