MINORITY CAPACITY BUILDING IN HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH

卫生服务研究的领域问题， 美国。卫生保健提供系统，包括： 治疗，如移植或新的药物方案;护理质量; 医疗保健提供系统的不足;结果，成本效益， 成本效益和护理研究的适当性;以及， 政府医疗政策对个人的影响， 体制层面。在研究这些问题时， 研究人员必须敏感地认识到特殊 少数民族和弱势群体等。然而，在这方面， 目前很少有卫生服务研究得到充分资助 在研究设计或分析中涉及特殊人群。 此外，少数族裔的代表性严重不足， 接受AHCPR资助的主要研究人员。 解决这些 问题，美国医学院协会提出了一个 与AHCPR达成合作协议，以开展以下工作： 1.召开全国“卫生服务研究问题和 特殊人群”，以激发研究兴趣， 特殊人群。 2.举办一个少数民族教师专业发展学院在健康 为满足少数群体的培训需求而进行的研究 研究人员在卫生服务研究。 3.引起对保健服务的兴趣并提高其声望 通过AAMC在医学院和教学医院进行研究 出版物和会议。 4.使用，AAMC教师名册数据库，匹配少数民族医学 学校教师的控制样本的大多数教师，并检查 MEDLARS数据库，以了解更多关于不同研究兴趣的信息 (if两个教师群体中的任何一个。 其主要目的是 确定少数民族研究人员是否发表关于少数民族问题的文章， 比大多数同行更高的利率。

Health services research has as its domain issues confronting the U.S..health care delivery system, including: effectiveness and cost of treatments such as transplants or new drug regimens; quality of care; inadequacies in health care delivery systems; outcomes, cost benefit, cost effectiveness, and appropriateness of care research; and, implications of government health care policies at the individual and institutional level. In the study of these issues, it is important for researchers to be sensitive to the nature and needs of special populations such as minorities and disadvantaged persons. However, little health services research currently being funded adequately addresses special populations in either research design or analysis. Furthermore, there is significant underrepresentation of minority principal investigators receiving AHCPR funding. To address these issues, the Association of American Medical Colleges proposes a cooperative agreement with AHCPR to do the following: 1. Hold a national conference on "Health Services Research Issues and Special Populations" to generate research interest in issues related to special populations. 2. Hold a Minority Faculty Professional Development Institute in Health Services Research to address the need for training of minority researchers in health services research. 3. Generate interest in, and raise the prestige of, health services research in medical schools and teaching hospitals through AAMC publications and meetings. 4. Using the, AAMC Faculty Roster Database, match minority medical school faculty to a control sample of majority faculty and examine the MEDLARS databases to learn more about the differing research interests (if any) of the two faculty groups. The primary purpose of this is to determine if minority researchers publish articles on minority issues at higher rates than their majority counterparts.