Health Services and Outcomes Research Methodology

期刊简介：The journal reflects the multidisciplinary nature of the field of health services and outcomes research. It addresses the needs of multiple, interlocking communities, including methodologists in statistics, econometrics, social and behavioral sciences; designers and analysts of health policy and health services research projects; and health care providers and policy makers who need to properly understand and evaluate the results of published research. The journal strives to enhance the level of methodologic rigor in health services and outcomes research and contributes to the development of methodologic standards in the field. In pursuing its main objective, the journal also provides a meeting ground for researchers from a number of traditional disciplines and fosters the development of new quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods by statisticians, econometricians, health services researchers, and methodologists in other fields. Health Services and Outcomes Research Methodology publishes: Research papers on quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods; Case Studies describing applications of quantitative and qualitative methodology in health services and outcomes research; Review Articles synthesizing and popularizing methodologic developments; Tutorials; Articles on computational issues and software reviews; Book reviews; and Notices. Special issues will be devoted to papers presented at important workshops and conferences.

【译文】该期刊反映了卫生服务与成果研究领域的多学科性质。它满足了多个相互关联的社区的需求，包括统计学、计量经济学、社会科学和行为科学的方法学家；卫生政策与健康服务研究项目的制定者和分析师；以及需要正确理解和评估已发表研究结果的卫生保健提供者和政策制定者。该期刊致力于提高卫生服务与成果研究的方法论严谨性，并为该领域方法论标准的制定做出贡献。在追求其主要目标的同时，该期刊还为来自多个传统学科的研究人员提供了一个交流平台，并促进统计学家、计量经济学家、卫生服务研究人员和其他领域的方法学家开发新的定量、定性和混合方法。