Clinical Outcomes Research Office

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Department of Otolaryngology:
Head and Neck Surgery

Washington University School of Medicine
St. Louis, Missouri, USA

Jay F. Piccirillo, M.D., F.A.C.S.,
Director

SCOPE OF WORK:

The Clinical Outcomes Research Office of the Division of Research performs basic and applied clinical epidemiology and health services research. Clinical epidemiology is the study of the diagnosis, prognosis, and evaluation of treatment. The scientific methodology of clinical epidemiology is based on the architecture of clinical research, biostatistics, and data processing. Part of this methodology is borrowed from public health epidemiology and is applied to the uniquely clinical situations that clinicians face. Clinical epidemiology, therefore, is a methodology that can be applied to the study of any and all human disease and illness. Health services research can be defined as efforts to determine how the health system functions so that its performance can be improved. This definition makes the field essentially activist in nature.

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