DCS 5207:
Health Services Research

Measuring health care cost and health outcomes for cost-outcome studies from clinical trials data, assessing treatment effects and costs from observation databases, computing cost-outcome ratios.  Course objectives are:

1. Describe basic concepts and definitions for health services research.
2. Focus on measuring care access, utilization, and quality.
3. Describe health care finance, including public and private insurance.
4. Describe methods to forecast demand and needs for care.

Prerequisites: none

Credit: 2 credit hours, elective

Grade Criteria: Pass/Fail

Semester Offered: Fall

Course Director: T. Michael Kashner, PhD, JD, MPH, Professor, Department of Psychiatry

Course Administrator: Mack Dressler, Dept. of Clinical Sciences, E5.506
phone: 214 648-2558, fax: 214 648-3494