Welcome to the Center for Health Services Research
Georgia State University's
Center for Health Services Research (CHSR) utilizes an outstanding
team of researchers actively involved in projects related to health
services research, health information systems, outcome measures,
and health administration. As specialists in health services research
in an academic institution, we involve faculty, business and industry
leaders in whatever research efforts we undertake.
Current Representative Contracts and Grants
Evaluation
of Cost and Quality Outcomes Among Currently Available Long-Term
Care Programs, Study Expansion and Extension
Funded by the Georgia
Department of Community Health, this current research project seeks
to:
- Expand the Medicaid
portion of the Home and Community-Based Services (HCBS) database
through CY2002 to provide an analytic framework of the care and
cost outcomes with a larger and more expanded patient database
than the initial study; and
- Investigate the cost/benefit
analysis of Ambulatory Care Sensitive Conditions (ACSC), especially
among the CCSP and SOURCE programs.
The Principal Investigator
on this contract is Dr. James P. Cooney. Collaborating faculty include
Dr. Robert H. Curry, Dr. Jay Bae, Glenn Landers, Mei Zhou, and Wenjun
Dai.
HEDIS
Outcome Measures and a Survey of Policies and Practices Related
to Cardiovascular Health Among Georgia's Health Plans
Funded by the Georgia
Division of Public Health's Section on Chronic Disease, Injury and
Environmental Epidemiology, Department of Human Resources (DHR),
this project undertakes the following goals and objectives:
- Research, contact
and develop an agreement with all of Georgia's health plans to
obtain HEDIS outcome measures and to participate in a survey;
- Obtain HEDIS outcome
measures of selected cardiovascular and other chronic diseases;
- Conduct a survey regarding
policies and practices as related to cardiovascular health and
other chronic diseases for each health plan; and
- Report on the findings
through a detailed analysis of the obtained data.
The Principal Investigator
is Dr. John Newman and Dr. Robert H. Curry is Co-Principal Investigator.
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