Department of Dermatology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94143-0808, USA.
J Invest Dermatol. 2012 Mar;132(3 Pt 2):1003-7. doi: 10.1038/jid.2011.357. Epub 2011 Nov 10.
To translate scientific discovery into improved health, we must study health care itself; i.e., how people access health care, costs or other barriers to the provision of good care, and what happens to patients as a result of this care. Health services research (HSR) is the interdisciplinary field that studies health care and its effects. This paper reviews different types of HSR and highlights some dermatologic examples that have resulted in improved health-care systems or have helped us understand access to existing systems. The paper also addresses some of the political and systematic challenges for health services research overall, and for individual investigators and program leaders.
为了将科学发现转化为改善健康的成果，我们必须研究医疗保健本身；也就是说，研究人们如何获得医疗保健、医疗服务提供过程中的费用或其他障碍，以及患者因这些医疗服务而产生的结果。卫生服务研究（HSR）是研究医疗保健及其效果的跨学科领域。本文综述了不同类型的 HSR，并重点介绍了一些皮肤科的例子，这些例子改善了医疗保健系统，或帮助我们了解了现有系统的可及性。本文还讨论了卫生服务研究整体以及个别研究人员和项目负责人所面临的一些政治和系统挑战。
