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By linking the care people get to the outcomes they experience,
Outcomes Research has become the key to developing better ways to monitor and improve the quality of care.
Center for Outcomes Research (CORE)
offers a comprehensive approach to help clinicians
manage research studies.
Outcomes Research seeks to understand the results of particular health care practices and interventions. End results include effects that people experience and care about such as the ability to function. In particular, for individuals living with chronic conditions—where cure is not always possible —end results include quality of life as well as mortality.
CORE faculty's areas of expertise...
CORE’s faculty work seamlessly to support each research project. The comprehensive services it provides draw from its faculty’s specific areas of expertise which include epidemiology, biostatistics and health services research and cover a range of research activities from hypothesis generation to completion of the publication detailing the findings.
CORE faculty collaborate with clinician/researchers to better understand patterns of disease and health in order to improve patient and population health outcomes.
CORE's faculty is available to:
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Help translate ideas into hypotheses.
- Provide guidance on study design.
- Provide subject recruitment strategies and sample size estimates.
- Develop data collection tools and strategies.
- Design the database and, if needed, coordinate data entry management.
- Develop statistical plans.
- Analyze and interpret data.
- Perform cost and effect measurements and analyses.
- Contribute as coauthors on scholarly papers, presentations and grant proposals.
Research projects CORE can assist with...
Descriptive Studies—Systematic collection and analysis of patient demographics, health risks, behaviors, comorbidities and functional health status.
Analytic Observational Studies (Cross-sectional, case control, cohort)—Designed specifically to evaluate associations between exposures, risk factors or predictor variables and outcomes (e.g., presence of disease, health indicator.)
Randomized Controlled Trials—Planned experiments to evaluate changes in health, functional indicators or other outcomes following an intervention (e.g. Drug therapy, surgical procedure.)
Contact:
- Ellen Jones
Office Manager
Office Phone: 315-464-4430
FAX: 315-464-4429
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