Archived Health Services Research Projects Database

Over 38,000 health services and public health research projects from the 1990s onward. The database was maintained by datadiscovery.nlm.nih.gov and retired from updates in September 2021.

Use Cases

• Analyze temporal trends in research focus using HSR_INITIAL_YEAR, HSR_FINAL_YEAR, and MESHTERMS.
• Examine funding patterns and award types by linking HSR_AWARD_TYPE with HSR_TOTAL_AWARD_AMOUNT.
• Identify research gaps by classifying projects based on HSR_STUDYPOPULATION and HSR_POPULATION_BASE.
• Map the geographic distribution of research institutions using GET_PO_STATE and GET_PO_COUNTRY columns.

Strengths

• Contains over 38,000 project records.
• Includes temporal data spanning from the 1990s.
• Provides structured project details like title, abstract, award amount, and subject count.

Limitations

• Data is archived and not updated after September 2021, limiting current analysis.
• Sample size and geographic representativeness of the 38,000 projects are unknown.
• Some column names appear to be database function calls, indicating potential data extraction complexities.

Provenance

Source

datadiscovery.nlm.nih.gov

Collection Method

Database compilation of health services research projects.

Time Range

1990s to 2021

Freshness

Archived; last updated in 2021.

Geography

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