Litwin Mark S
David Geffen School of Medicine, School of Public Health, Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California, Los Angeles. Los Angeles, CA 90095-1738, USA.
Semin Radiat Oncol. 2008 Jul;18(3):152-60. doi: 10.1016/j.semradonc.2008.01.002.
The discipline of health services research, often loosely referred to as outcomes research, is primarily focused on the study of access to care, costs of care, and quality of care. Access to care includes everything that facilitates or impedes the actual use of medical services. Costs of care include financial and nonfinancial payments by insurers and individuals for medical services as well as the opportunity cost of lost wages and the societal cost of decreased productivity. Quality of care encompasses elements of the structure, process, and outcome of medical care.
卫生服务研究学科，通常被宽泛地称为结果研究，主要专注于对医疗服务可及性、医疗成本和医疗质量的研究。医疗服务可及性包括所有促进或阻碍实际使用医疗服务的因素。医疗成本包括保险公司和个人为医疗服务支付的财务和非财务费用，以及工资损失的机会成本和生产力下降的社会成本。医疗质量涵盖医疗服务的结构、过程和结果等要素。
