Center for Health Services & Outcomes

Mission: to integrate management and research sciences for the purpose of evaluating and improving the quality and cost effectiveness of health services delivery; to promote and facilitate an interdisciplinary approach to empirically-based health policy and clinical decision making.

Goals:

• To assure quality and integrity in reseach.
• Enhance the application of research through clinical practice innovation and clinical decisions.
• Improve the recognition of CAMC, the Institute and the Outcomes Center at local, state, regional and national levels.
• Establish effective partnerships that address community health needs.
• Enhance the application of research through devidence-based decision making and outcomes based performance improvement.

Services:

• Education
• Biostatistics and Epidemiology
• Operations Management
• Outcomes Research
• Performance-based Quality Improvement
• Satistical Computing
• Research Library
• Journal Archives
• Customer Satisfaction
• Functional Health Status
• Specific Research Initiatives; Cardiovascular, Children's Health, Cancer, Trauma, Women's Health
• Research Assistance
  -Medical and Health Literature Searches
  -Grant Proposal Development
  -Assessment and Evalutation of Programs/Projects
  -Publication and presentation Assistance
  -Analysis and Interpretation of Data
  -Research Study Design
• Data Management