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About HSR&D
Overview:
VA's Health Services Research and Development Service (HSR&D), works to identify and evaluate innovative strategies that lead to accessible, high quality, cost-effective care for veterans and the nation. One of four research services within VA's Office of Research and Development, HSR&D is an intramural research program funding eligible VA clinicians and investigators to address VA health care priorities.
Translating research evidence into improved patient care is a priority of HSR&D and the major effort behind the Quality Enhancement Research Initiative. HSR&D is also committed to broad dissemination of research information and findings through a series of publications and other dissemination activities.
Health Services Research in VA:
Health services research in VA examines the organization, delivery, and financing of health care, from the perspectives of patients, caregivers, providers, and managers to improve the quality and economy of care. Specifically, HSR&D is interested in evaluations of the structure, processes, and outcomes of care, including issues of patient safety and equity. HSR&D also is concerned with system-level outcomes such as assessments of cost and access, as well as effective ways to translate clinical knowledge into practice. The underlying objective of health services research in VA is to understand and improve clinical decision-making and care, inform patients, evaluate changes in the health care system, and inform VA policymaking.
HSR&D projects are often multidisciplinary activities. They involve expertise in a combination of clinical fields (medicine and all its specialties, nursing, and other health care professions), social sciences (especially psychology, sociology, economics, and organization theory), and multiple research approaches and methods (experimental and quasi-experimental studies, survey research, database analyses, biostatistics, psychometrics, econometrics, modeling techniques, etc.)
HSR&D Leadership
VA's Health Services Research and Development Service is headed by Director
Seth A. Eisen, MD, MSc as the Director and Shirley Meehan, MBA, PhD as the Deputy Director.
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