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Advancing Health Services Research

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The Center for Health Systems Effectiveness excels at health economics and data analysis. We serve academic researchers and research organizations and foster collaborations among health services researchers at OHSU and throughout the region.

The Center sponsors events that promote networking, knowledge exchange, and brainstorming on research challenges. 

We are partnering with OHSU Healthcare on applied research projects directed at achieving the Triple Aim of improving the quality of care, reducing the costs of care, while enhancing the patient experience. 

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Additional Health Services Research Centers at OHSU

The Center for Health Systems Effectiveness is building collaborations with two other organizations at OHSU: The Center for Evidence-base Policy (CEbP) and the Pacific Northwest Evidence-based Practice Center (EPC). The efforts of the three centers are complementary.  Areas of emphasis and expertise are summarized here:



Center for Health Systems Effectiveness Pacific Northwest
Evidence-based
Practice Center		 Center for
Evidence-based Policy
Expertise
  • Health economics
  • Analysis of
    large datasets
  • Healthcare quality improvement through analysis of data
  • Clinical practice guidelines
  • Systematic reviews
  • Consumer-oriented evidence reviews
  • Clinical evidence
    gap analyses
  • Patient-centered
    outcomes research
  • Evidence-based informatics
  • Critical appraisal of cost-effectiveness analysis and decision analysis
  • Policy analysis
  • Application of
    evidence to policy
  • Stakeholder engagement
  • Multi-state collaborations to create evidence-based policy
Director
  • John McConnell, PhD
  • Roger Chou, MD
  • Mark Gibson
Website
Visit the EPC Website Visit the Center for Evidence-based Policy Website