The health services research projects at the Center are focused in the three broad categories of Health Care Financing, Quality and Outcomes of Care, and Asthma Care and Education.

• Collaboration with the Health Care Agency, Emilia-Romagna Region, Italy

• Longitudinal Health Care Utilization Database

• Risk Adjustment and Population-Based Financing of Health Care

• Assessment of Timeliness and Appropriateness of Acute Hospital Use

• Potentially Inappropriate Medication Prescribing for Elderly Ambulatory Patients

• Impact of the Abolition of a Cost-Sharing Drug Policy on Drug Consumption and Medical Care Utilization

• Jefferson Cardiac Care Database

• Disease Staging Clinical Criteria

• Clinical Benchmarking

• Physician-Nurse Collaboration

• Physician Attire Study

• Outcomes Assessment at Jefferson's Center for Integrative Medicine

• Multidisciplinary Team Approach to the Management of Sickle Cell Disease

• The AsthmaBus©

• Practice Variation and Clinical Vignettes