Introduction to Health Services Research : A Self-Study Course

Case 3. Medicare Reimbursement Reforms (Page 3 of 37)

Learning Objectives

Case 3 will help you...

• Develop a better understanding of what health services research is through completing this research case on Medicare reimbursement reforms
• Develop strategies for retrieving health services research citations from a variety of databases by
  • asking questions that illuminate the research questions
  • creating concepts that help define the questions
  • selecting appropriate bibliographic databases
  • locating specialized vocabulary terms for efficient searching of relevant databases
  • executing searches
• Evaluate the results of your searches for quality
• Understand who the important players are in the field and what their interest is in getting answers to this and similar questions
• Develop an understanding of current research projects dealing with this and similar topics and how to use the information from related research projects to inform this question
• Locate appropriate datasets and related information for use in answering your research questions