Tag Archives: Research

Health equity: mistakes to avoid when conducting research

By | August 3, 2023

A special dispatch from AcademyHealth’s Annual Research Meeting in Seattle, June 2023 This post recaps a panel discussion focused on Measuring Impact of Policy Strategies on Health Equity. I was fortunate to be among the panelists. My talk focused on 7 common mistakes when conducting evaluation and health equity-focused research. In this post, I share… Read More »

When legal ramifications restrict survey research, we all suffer

By | April 26, 2018

“A graduate student was threatened with a lawsuit and retraction of a published paper unless she paid thousands of dollars and signed a retroactive license for having used a measure without paying the fee.” This example was one of the motivating factors for a recent Medical Care commentary by Dr. Ron Hays and colleagues. The commentary… Read More »

An exercise in frustration: Barriers to obtaining healthcare information online

In a graduate course this semester (at the Temple University College of Public Health) on Healthcare Quality and Safety, one of the assignments is to explore the internet to learn about how consumers/patients without specific healthcare knowledge might get information on quality of care.  When students enter “consumer healthcare information” in Google, the first result… Read More »

The Role of Crowdsourcing in Research

Crowdsourcing is defined as “a sourcing model in which individuals or organizations obtain goods and services, including ideas and finances, from a large, relatively open and often rapidly evolving group of internet users. Crowdsourcing spreads work among participants to achieve a cumulative result.”  Some well-known examples of crowdsourcing include the online encyclopedia Wikipedia, the traffic… Read More »