Health Services Research

Overview

Aims and Scope

Vision Statement

1. To be the preferred forum for health service researchers, managers, policymakers, providers and students to:

• Promote translation of health services research into improved practice and policy.
• Expand understanding of financing, organization, delivery and outcomes of health services.

2. To be the preferred outlet for:

• Dissemination of the findings of original investigations that expand knowledge and understanding of the broad field of health care.
• Analysis of the implications of these findings for U.S. clinical practice, management and policy.

Key Values

• Scientific Integrity
• Methodological Rigor
• Policy and Practice Relevance
• Significance
• Timeliness
• Creativity
• Clarity of Thought
• Originality

Misson Statement

To publish thoughtful, timely and rigorously conducted state-of-the-art health services research that enhances understanding of the financing, organization, delivery and outcomes of health services and that is relevant to U.S. health care policy and practice.

Readership

Researchers, practitioners and students engaged in public policy formulation, and health services management.

Keywords

Health Services Research, Health, Services, Research, HSR, policy, care, analysis, clinical, politics, government, legislation, social, community, resources, medical, prevention, hospital, administration, journal, research, periodical, article, reviews, book

Abstracting and Indexing Information

• ABI/INFORM Collection (ProQuest)
• Abstracts in Anthropology (Sage)
• Academic Search Alumni Edition (EBSCO Publishing)
• AgeLine Database (EBSCO Publishing)
• Agricultural & Environmental Science Database (ProQuest)
• Business ASAP (GALE Cengage)
• Business Premium Collection (ProQuest)
• CatchWord (Publishing Technology)
• Current Contents: Clinical Medicine (Clarivate Analytics)
• Current Contents: Social & Behavioral Sciences (Clarivate Analytics)
• Current Index to Statistics (ASA/IMS)
• Embase (Elsevier)
• Health & Medical Collection (ProQuest)
• Health Management Database (ProQuest)
• Health Research Premium Collection (ProQuest)
• HEED: Health Economic Evaluations Database (Wiley-Blackwell)
• Hospital Premium Collection (ProQuest)
• InfoTrac (GALE Cengage)
• International Pharmaceutical Abstracts (Clarivate Analytics)
• Journal Citation Reports/Science Edition (Clarivate Analytics)
• Journal Citation Reports/Social Science Edition (Clarivate Analytics)
• MEDLINE/PubMed (NLM)
• Natural Science Collection (ProQuest)
• Proquest Business Collection (ProQuest)
• ProQuest Central (ProQuest)
• PsycINFO/Psychological Abstracts (APA)
• Public Health Database (ProQuest)
• PubMed Dietary Supplement Subset (NLM)
• Research Library (ProQuest)
• Research Library Prep (ProQuest)
• Science Citation Index (Clarivate Analytics)
• Science Citation Index Expanded (Clarivate Analytics)
• SciTech Premium Collection (ProQuest)
• Social Science Premium Collection (ProQuest)
• Social Sciences Citation Index (Clarivate Analytics)