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The Health Services Organization and Delivery (HSOD) Study Section reviews health services research studies that include multidisciplinary investigations of the predictors, processes and outcomes of health services, including availability, access and acceptability; organization; decision-making; delivery, utilization, and quality of care; and costs, cost-effectiveness and financing of health care.  Health services include inpatient, outpatient, sub-acute, acute, community-based, rehabilitative and long-term care.  Specific areas covered by HSOD: 

• Community, provider, economic, technological, and management resources and support, including studies of supply and area market behaviors; health care provider characteristics; health insurance, reimbursement, and financing mechanisms; health care management technology and assessment of emerging technology; health care delivery system characteristics.
• Health needs and health services utilization; studies of severity of illness; comorbidity; risk prediction and risk adjustment; psychosocial and economic factors related to health care; and adherence to health care recommendations.
• Healthcare organizations, programs, and delivery of services; integrated care delivery systems; disease management and modeling; continuous quality improvement; characteristics of the organization and patient outcomes; organizational performance and efficiency; cost-benefit analysis; economics of health care and pharmacoeconomics.
• Healthcare quality, effectiveness, and outcomes; clinical practice guidelines; treatment outcomes; patient and provider satisfaction; health status and outcomes assessment; evidence-based practice; health-related quality of life; medical decision-making.
• Health disparities; access to health care; cost of health care; organizational programs for health advocacy; evaluation of public-private collaborative and inter-organizational network services delivery; formal and informal care provision.

Study sections with most closely related areas of similar science listed in rank order are:

Nursing Science: Adults and Older Adults Study Section [NSAA] 
Social Sciences and Population Studies Study Section [SSPS] 
Community Influences on Health Behavior Study Section [CIHB] 
Community-Level Health Promotion Study Section [CLHP] 
Behavioral Medicine Interventions and Outcomes Study Section [BMIO]