Projects
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UNC-CH Training Program in Health Services Research
Training program to provide academic training and direct experience in the application of the research skills from a number of disciplines to the study of the organization, financing, utilization, and delivery of personal health care services.
Program Director:Timothy S. Carey, M.D., M.P.H.
Source: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Total Project Period: 09/89 - 06/08
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National Information System on Health Services Research
Project to maintain a health services research information system that collects available information on ongoing research projects funded by both public and private sector agencies for the National Library of Medicine.
Principal Investigator: B. Lynn Whitener, M.S.L.S., Dr.P.H.
Source: National Library of Medicine, NIH (through The Association for Health Services Research)
Total Project Period: 11/91 - 11/08 (extended)
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Institutional National Research Service Award
Continuation of University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's National Research Service Award Primary Care Research Fellowship to prepare physicians who are committed to careers as academic primary care researchers to confidently and expertly conceive, conduct, and disseminate research in the field of primary medical care.
Principal Investigator: Donald E. Pathman, M.D.
Source: Bureau of Health Professions, HRSA
Total Project Periods: 06/15/99-12/17/06 and 09/07 - 08/08 (renewable)
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HSR Tools Evaluation/Recommendations
project to provide recommendations on the design and content of HSR Tools, a new database of the National Information Center on Health Services Research and Health Care Technology to include citations to datasets and instruments related to health services research.
Principal Investigator: B. Lynn Whitener, M.S.L.S., Dr.P.H.
Source: National Library of Medicine, NIH (through the Association for Health Services Research)
Total Project Period : 06/99 - 09/06 (extended)
An Observational Descriptive Study of Institutional Review Board (IRB) Practices – Given the widespread reliance on IRBs as oversight bodies for assuring ethical conduct of research, it is surprising that there has been little if any investigation of their decision-making process. This project will focus exclusively on decision making about new protocols that are presented to IRBs. By applying both quantitative and qualitative research techniques to tape-recorded IRB deliberations, and to semi-structured interviews with IRB reviewers, the process of decision making will be described and what types of projects are likely to get the most thorough reviews will be determined. The project aims are to: 1) describe the content of IRB decisions about individual research protocols; 2) characterize the interaction processes by which IRBs make decisions; and 3) describe the IRB decision-making processes in terms or organizational design making theory. What domains of decision making, as described by organizational decision making theory, receive the most attention in IRB processes will be determined, as well as determining what variables and protocol variables predict the domains that receive the most attention.
Principal Investigator: Laura C. Hanson, M.D., M.P.H.
Funding Source: National Institutes of Health (via University of Massachusetts)
Total Project Period: 09/06 – 04/11
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America’s Health Rankings – This project supports the continuing work of the Scientific Advisory Committee to the America’s Health Rankings®, an assessment of the relative health of the 50 states in the U.S. The United Health Foundation publishes these rankings annually. The funds support the review of issues and trends by the Committee, the analysis of options in calculating the rankings, and the implementation of improvements to the rankings methodology.
Principal Investigator: Thomas C. Ricketts, III, M.P.H., Ph.D.
Funding Source: United Health Foundation
Funding Received: 01/08/02, 01/25/02, 04/14/04, 08/30/05, 08/01/06, and 05/21/07 – 05/20/08
