醫療照護研究法

The course aims (1) to introduce basic knowledge and methods in Health Services Research; (2) to familiarize students with the essential elements of proposal/manuscript development. This is a 2-credit course. This course is conducted mainly with both lectures and class discussion. Students are required to make presentations and submit a research proposal/manuscript. By the end of the course, each student should have done the following tasks: 1. To understand basic knowledge in Health Services Research 2. To perform the essential elements of proposal/manuscript development 3. To constructively critique dissertation proposals and academic articles of others.

Basic quantitative analytical ability

Session 2: 1. Shi, L. (2007). “Chapter 1: Scientific Foundation of Health Services Research” and “Chapter 2: Conceptualizing Health Services Research” In Health Services Research Methods, 2nd edition. Albany, NY: Delmar Cengage Learning Chapter 1-2, pages 1-60. 2. Hart, C. (2018). “Chapter 1: The Research Imagination” In Doing a Literature Review: Releasing the Social Science Research Imagination. 2nd edition, Sage Publications Ltd.. 3. Cals JW, Kotz D. Effective writing and publishing scientific papers, Part I: How to get started and part III: Introduction. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. 2013 Jul;66(7):397 and 702 4. 陳為堅. (2009). 科學論文寫作入門: 寫給初學者的信.台北縣中和市: 金名圖書., 第一章-第三章, 1-24 頁.**** Session 3-4 1. Brownson RC et al., (2003). “Searching the scientific literature and organizing information.” In Evidence-based Public Health. Oxford: Oxford Press. 2. Shi, L. (2007). “Chapter 4: Research Review” In Health Services Research Methods, 2nd edition. Albany, NY: Delmar Cengage Learning Chapter 4, pages 92-113. 3. Hart, C. (2018). “Chapter 2: The Purpose of Literature Reviewing,” “Chapter 3: Classifying and Reading Research to Review” and “Chapter 7: Understanding and Analyzing the Ways Ideas are Organized” In Doing a Literature Review: Releasing the Social Science Research Imagination. 2nd edition, Sage Publications. 4. 陳為堅. (2009). 科學論文寫作入門: 寫給初學者的信.台北縣中和市: 金名圖書., 第四章, 25-36 頁.**** Session 6 (Student Discussion): 1. Zajacova, A. (2006). “Education, gender, and mortality: Does Schooling Have the Same Effect on Mortality for Men and Women in the US?” Social Science and Medicine, 63:2176-2190. 2. Asaria, M., et al., (2016) “How a universal health system reduces inequalities: lessons from England” J Epidemiol Community Health, 70(7): 637-643. 3. Martsolf, G.R., et al. (2016). “An Examination of Hospital Nurse Staffing and Patient Experience with Care: Differences between Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Estimates” Health Services Research, 51(6):2221-2241. 4. Beaulieu, N.D., et al., (2020). “Changes in Quality of Care after Hospital Mergers and Acquisitions.” N Engl J Med 2020;382:51-9. 5. Dieleman, J.L., et al., (2020). “US Health Care Spending by Payer and Health Condition, 1996-2016.” JAMA, 323(9):863-884. Session 9: 1. Shi, L. (2007). Health Services Research Methods, 2nd edition. Albany, NY: Delmar Cengage Learning Chapter 5, pages 114-124. 2. Bruce, N. et al., (2008). Quantitative Methods for Health Research: A Practical Interactive Guide to Epidemiology and Statistics. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Interscience, Chapter 2.1 & 2.5, pages 29-30, 78-86. 3. Hsing, A.W. et al. (2015) “Nationwide Population Science: Lessons from the Taiwan National Health Insurance Research Database.” JAMA Intern Med, Published online July 20, 2015. Session 10: 1. Korn, E. L., and Graubard, B. I. (1991). “Epidemiologic studies utilizing surveys: accounting for the sampling design.” American Journal of Public Health, 81(9), 1166-1173. 2. Hinkin TR. A brief tutorial on the development of measures for use in survey questionnaires. Organizational Research Methods, 1998: 1(1): 104-121 3. Lu Ann Aday and Llewellyn J. Cornelius. (2006). Designing and conducting health surveys. A comprehensive Guide. 3rd edition. Lossey-Bass Publishers. Chapter VIII & XII. 4. Turner, C.F., et al. (1998) “Adolescent sexual behavior, drug use, and violence: Increased Reporting with computer survey technology.” Science, 280:867-873. 5. Watson, L.F., et al. (2007) “Research interviewers’ experience in the Early Briths study of very preterm birth: qualitative assessment of data collection processes in a case-control study.” Paediatr Perinat Epidemiol, 21:87-94. 6. McNeeley S. (2012). Sensitive Issues in Surveys: Reducing Refusals While Increasing Reliability and Quality of Responses to Sensitive Survey Items. L. Gideon (ed.), Handbook of Survey Methodology for the Social Sciences, Springer Verlag. Session 11-12: 1. Blettner, M. et al., (2001). “Critical reading of epidemiological paper.” European Journal of Public Health, 11(1): 97-101. 2. Gliner, J.A., Morgan, G.A., and Leech, N.L. (2017). Research Methods in Applied Settings: An Integrated Approach to Design and Analysis. 3rd Edition. Routledge, NY., Chapter 5 (P.69-88), Chapter 7(P. 106-119), and Chapter 8(P. 120-131). 3. Cals JW, Kotz D. Effective writing and publishing scientific papers, Part IV: Methods. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. 2013 Jul;66(7):817 4. 陳為堅. (2009). 科學論文寫作入門: 寫給初學者的信.台北縣中和市: 金名圖書., 第五章-第九章, 37-59 頁.**** Optional: 1. Bell, CM and Redelmeier DA. (2001) “Mortality among patients admitted to hospitals on weekends as compared with weekdays.” N Engl J Med, 345(9):663-668. 2. Baron, R.M., and Kenny, D.A. (1986). “The moderator-mediator variable distinction in social psychological research: Conceptual, strategic and statistical consideration.” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 51(6): 1173-1182. 3. Galea, S. et al., (2010). “Causal thinking and complex system approaches in epidemiology.” International Journal of Epidemiology, 39:97-106 4. Rothman K.J. (2014). “Six persistent research misconceptions.” J Gen Intern Med, 29(7):1060–4 Session 13 (Student Discussion): 1. Herrin, J., et al. (2015). “Community Factors and Hospital Readmission Rates.” Health Services Research, 50(1): 20-39. 2. Matthews A., et al., (2016). “Impact of statin related media coverage on use of statins: interrupted time series analysis with UK primary care data.” BMJ, 353:i.3283. 3. McClellan, S., et al., (2016). “Patient-initiated Electronic Messages and Quality of Care for Patients with Diabetes and Hypertension in a Large Fee-for-Service Medical Group: Results from a Natural Experiment.” Medical Care, 54(3): 287-295. 4. Dimitrovová, K., et al., (2020) “Effect of a national primary care reform on avoidable hospital admissions (2000-2015): A difference-in-difference analysis” Soc Sci Med, 252:112908. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2020.112908. Epub 2020 Mar 10. 5. Chen, Y., et al. (2020). “Religious-Service Attendance and Subsequent Health and Well-being throughout Adulthood: Eidence from Three Prospective Cohorts” International Journal of Epidemiology, dyaa120, https://doi.org/10.1093/ije/dyaa120. Session 14: 1. Cals JW, Kotz D. Effective writing and publishing scientific papers, Part V: Results, part VI: Discussions, and Part VII: Tables and Figures. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. 2013 Jul;66(7):945, 1064 and 1197 2. Gliner, J.A., Morgan, G.A., and Leech, N.L. (2017). Research Methods in Applied Settings: An Integrated Approach to Design and Analysis. 3rd Edition. Routledge, NY., Chapter 23 (P.417-432) and Chapter 24 (P. 433-445). 3. 陳為堅. (2009). 科學論文寫作入門:寫給初學者的信.台北縣中和市: 金名圖書., 第六章-第九章, 61-148 頁.**** Session 16 (Student Discussion): 1. Herrin, J., et al. (2015). “Community Factors and Hospital Readmission Rates.” Health Services Research, 50(1): 20-39. 2. Matthews A., et al., (2016). “Impact of statin related media coverage on use of statins: interrupted time series analysis with UK primary care data.” BMJ, 353:i.3283. 3. McClellan, S., et al., (2016). “Patient-initiated Electronic Messages and Quality of Care for Patients with Diabetes and Hypertension in a Large Fee-for-Service Medical Group: Results from a Natural Experiment.” Medical Care, 54(3): 287-295. 4. Dimitrovová, K., et al., (2020) “Effect of a national primary care reform on avoidable hospital admissions (2000-2015): A difference-in-difference analysis” Soc Sci Med, 252:112908. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2020.112908. Epub 2020 Mar 10. 5. Chen, Y., et al. (2020). “Religious-Service Attendance and Subsequent Health and Well-being throughout Adulthood: Evidence from Three Prospective Cohorts” International Journal of Epidemiology, dyaa120, https://doi.org/10.1093/ije/dyaa120.

One mid-term presentation 20% Final presentation 40% Student Discussions: Critiquing others’ work 30% Participation & Attendance 10%

1. Leiyu Shi (2007). Health Services Research Methods, 2nd edition. Delmar Cengage Learning. Albany, USA. 2. Bruce, N. Pope, D. and Stanistreet, D. (2008) Quantitative Methods for Health Research: A Practical Interactive Guide to Epidemiology and Statistics. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Interscience. 3. Gliner, J.A., Morgan, G.A., and Leech, N.L. (2009). Research Methods in Applied Settings: An Integrated Approach to Design and Analysis. 2rd Edition. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc. 4. Chris Hart (2018). Doing a Literature Review: Releasing the Social Science Research Imagination. 2nd edition. Sage Publications Ltd.. London, UK. 5. 陳為堅 (2009). 科學論文寫作入門. 金名圖書有限公司。

地點

Room 201, Medical Building II

時間

Friday Morning

聯絡方式

syhuang@nycu.edu.tw