March 12, 2010

Are you planning to write a research proposal? And does it concern research that helps to solve a specific problem related to the functioning of health care services? The leaflet ‘More quality, more chance; Tips for health services researchers’ offers numerous tips to help improve the quality of your research. The tips are based on the publication Scientific quality of health services research’ (2004) by Rikard Juttman, Niek Klazinga and Johan Mackenbach. This leaflet specifically concerns the methodological requirements which health services research must satisfy. It describes the scope of health services research, the dilemmas faced by this type of research and how you can anticipate these. This leaflet is one of the outcomes of the ZonMw programme WK-GZO, aimed at improving the quality of health care services research in the Netherlands.