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Health Services Research

"Health Services Research" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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The integration of epidemiologic, sociological, economic, and other analytic sciences in the study of health services. Health services research is usually concerned with relationships between need, demand, supply, use, and outcome of health services. The aim of the research is evaluation, particularly in terms of structure, process, output, and outcome. (From Last, Dictionary of Epidemiology, 2d ed)


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Health Services Research" by people in this website by year, and whether "Health Services Research" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 43 publications over 21 distinct years, with a maximum of 5 publications in 1997
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