Health Services Research
Projects
Faculty and staff associated with the HSR component are involved in projects designed to to understand and address Arkansas’ pressing health concerns, including the growing burden of chronic diseases, racial and ethnic disparities in health care, persistent gaps in quality of care, and barriers to accessing care in rural and underserved areas. Some of these current research efforts include the following:
Telemedicine and Distance Health Research
The Department
of Obstetrics and Gynecology has developed one of the state’s most
active HSR
units for analyzing and improving clinical practice patterns across Arkansas
through a telemedicine-based program known as the Antenatal and Neonatal
Guidelines, Evaluation, and Learning System (ANGELS). This program maintains a
statewide, fully linked data system that includes information from birth
records, death records, hospital discharge records, and Medicaid eligibility and
claims records (where applicable) for all episodes of pregnancy in Arkansas—one
of the most extensive systems of population-based maternal and neonatal health
data in the nation.
Mental Health Services Research
The Department of
Psychiatry maintains UAMS’s largest HSR unit in its Division of Health Services
Research DHSR) The DHSR has been recognized nationally as one of the most
comprehensive and innovative mental health services research centers for more
than a decade. It currently includes three distinct VA-funded research centers:
the HSR&D Center for Mental Healthcare and Outcomes Research (CeMHOR); the South
Central Mental Illness Research, Education, and Clinical Center (MIRECC); and
the Mental Health Quality Enhancement Research Initiative (QUERI) Coordinating
Center.
Child Health Services Research
The Department of Pediatrics in the
College of Medicine administers the Center for Applied Research and Evaluation
(CARE), a multidisciplinary group of researchers representing pediatrics,
psychiatry, psychology, epidemiology, biostatistics, medical sociology, health
economics, HSR, and nutrition. CARE is committed to
improving the health of children and families through high-quality research
focused on children, their families, and their communities.
Pharmaceutical Services and Outcomes Research
The Department of Pharmacy
Practice in the College of Pharmacy has 23 faculty members who provide
professional pharmacy education and conduct independent and multidisciplinary
research involving pharmaceutical evaluation and pharmacoeconomics, health
outcomes assessment, policy analyses, and social behavioral research in
pharmacy. These research activities are based in the Division of Pharmaceutical
Evaluation and Policy (PEP), which currently leads a
campus-wide center grant from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
(AHRQ 5P20HS015878-02) to expand HSR activities in Arkansas through the UAMS
Consortium for Health Services Research.
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