New Policy on Disclosures at Health Services Research

New policy on disclosures at Health Services Research.

The appropriate role of scientific journals is to disseminate the best science available to the public and the research community. Two principal mechanisms to fulfill this role are peer review and open disclosure of potential biases in conducting and reporting results. Peer review primarily focuses on what is presented in the submitted manuscript——reviewers cannot easily assess what has been om...

Public Spending on Health Services and Policy Research in Canada: A Reflection on Thakkar and Sullivan; Comment on “Public Spending on Health Service and Policy Research in Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States: A Modest Proposal”

Vidhi Thakkar and Terrence Sullivan have done a careful and thought-provoking job in trying to establish comparable estimates of public spending on health services and policy research (HSPR) in Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States. Their main recommendation is a call for an international collaboration to develop common terms and categories of HSPR. This paper raises two additional q...

Sequestered evidence: inaccessible findings from health services and policy research.

Breaking Gridlock in Health Policy?; Comment on “A New Synthesis”

Pierre-Gerlier Forest has put forward the case that we are on the brink of a revolution in health policy that will be the result of the interplay of five factors. I would not challenge any of them but would emphasize the need to address socio-economic health inequalities, which have the potential to become a major cost driver in a time of growing economic inequality. To Dr. Forest’s list, I wou...

Non-random reflections on health services research

Where you can find the non random reflections on health services research easily? Is it in the book store? On-line book store? are you sure? Keep in mind that you will find the book in this site. This book is very referred for you because it gives not only the experience but also lesson. The lessons are very valuable to serve for you, that's not about who are reading this non random reflections...