This course will address the following competencies important for Healthcare Delivery Science:
- Demonstrate ability to use theory and conceptual models in the design and interpretation of research.
- Demonstrate ability to develop an appropriate observational, quasi-experimental, or experimental study design while mitigating threats to internal and external validity for research minimally disruptive to real-world health systems and practices operations.
- Demonstrate knowledge of mixed methods and how they can be used to improve research studies.
- Demonstrate knowledge of assessing multilevel determinants of health and health care disparities when designing studies.
- Demonstrate ability to select and interpret appropriate clinical, financial, and patient-centered outcomes of interest based on the concepts they measure and their measurement Properties.
- Demonstrate ability to apply the principles of hypothesis testing and statistical inference to data collected routinely through the course of care as well as supplemental data from Patients, providers, and health systems.
Amytis Towfighi, MD, HDS Center Director, USC; Wendy J. Mack, PhD, Professor of Population and Public Health Sciences, USC; Rachel R. Ceasar, PhD, Assistant Professor of Population and Public Health Sciences, USC.
