The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) is recruiting a Health Services Research methodologist to advance our work with the AHRQ Quality Indicators (QIs).
The AHRQ QIs, which use administrative (hospital discharge) data to measure and track safety, quality, and access, are one of the Agency's most well-known and visible programs: the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services use many of the AHRQ QIs for public reporting and payment; states use some for public reporting; public health officials and others use them to target interventions for improving access and forestall potentially preventable hospital admissions; hospitals use the measures in quality improvement; and researchers use them extensively to develop new evidence about ways to improve safety, quality, accessibility, affordability, and equity. Because of these increasingly important and visible uses of the AHRQ QIs, it is essential that we continuously scrutinize them in light of the latest evidence and data capacities, and improve and update them regularly. The Health Services Research methodologist will work with the Quality Indicators team in AHRQ's Center for Delivery, Organization, and Markets to accomplish this.
The position is a two-year renewable Staff Service Fellow position, at the civil service equivalent of a GS 12, 13, or 14, depending on qualifications and experience. Because the necessary methodological skill-set could come from a number of different disciplines, such as Statistics, Economics, Epidemiology, or Nursing, we have not specified a discipline and will consider any candidate demonstrating a rigorous measurement expertise.
The USA Jobs vacancy announcements can be seen here:
· Staff Fellow 12/13 equivalent http://redirect.state.sbu/?url=https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/435950500/
· Staff Fellow 14 equivalent http://redirect.state.sbu/?url=https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/435948600/
Virginia Mackay-Smith
Associate Director, Center for Delivery, Organization, and Markets
Acting Director, CDOM's Division of Market and Systems Research
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
5600 Fishers Lane, Mailstop #7W25B, Rockville, MD, 20857
301-427-1404
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