8.5 Resources and infrastructure (health services)
Main inclusion criteria
- development and distribution of resources for use by the community including informatics systems
- infrastructure support for networks, trials, consortia and centres
Official terminology
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Full name of code |
Short name | Unique ID |
| 8.5 Resources and infrastructure (health services) | 8.5 Resources |
HRCS_RA_8_5 |
Related external links
Main inclusion criteria
Development of research designs and novel methodologies for health care including treatment, management and health services research, including:
- analytical innovation, methodological research, statistical methods and modelling
- development of research measurements including outcome measures
- development of methods of research assessment and evaluation
- development and evaluation of research designs and methodologies
Advice on research activities
Includes development of novel methodologies and research designs and measurements in treatment, management and health services research.
Excludes research applying bioinformatics or using pre-existing methods.
Excludes development of epidemiological methods and measures which should be coded as 2.5 Aetiology design.
Excludes development of models to aid health care management decision making which should be coded as 7.3 Management and decision making.
Excludes economic models which should be coded as 8.2 Health and welfare economics.
Official terminology
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Full name of code |
Short name | Unique ID |
| 8.4 Research design and methodologies (health services) | 8.4 Design |
HRCS_RA_8_4 |
Related external links
Main inclusion criteria
- evaluation of local, regional and national healthcare policy
- impact of legislation
- synthesis and evaluation of evidence to inform policy
- dissemination and implementation of research evidence
- research ethics including use of personal data and biological material, consent and confidentiality
- research governance and regulation processes including interpretation of guidelines
- issues surrounding research subjects and donor recruitment
Advice on research activities
Includes research relating to ethics and research governance and health care policy research related to provision of health services.
Official terminology
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Full name of code |
Short name | Unique ID |
| 8.3 Policy, ethics, and research governance | 8.3 Governance |
HRCS_RA_8_3 |
Related external links
Common Scientific Outline (CSO) – 6.7 Research on Ethics and Confidentiality
Main inclusion criteria
Economic evaluation of health and social care interventions and delivery, including:
- cost-benefit analysis of services including economic modelling
- cost effectiveness or economic feasibility of implementing new interventions or technologies within health services
- economic assessment of service productivity and outcomes
- health care costs
- development and evaluation of economic models of health care
Advice on research activities
Includes research with a main aim of investigating health and welfare economics.
Excludes clinical trials and health technology assessments with a mandatory economic evaluation component. In these cases, code for the therapeutic investigation only.
Official terminology
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Full name of code |
Short name | Unique ID |
| 8.2 Health and welfare economics | 8.2 Economics |
HRCS_RA_8_2 |
Related external links
Common Scientific Outline (CSO) – 6.4 Cost Analyses and Health Care Delivery
Main inclusion criteria
Examining the organisation and provision of health and social care services and evaluating factors affecting the quality of care, including:
- workforce and career issues
- organisation and management of services
- access to health and social care and geographical variations in outcomes
- effectiveness of different care settings and models of service delivery
- evaluating quality of care including patient safety issues
- evaluation of experiences of service users
- assessment of current and future health care demands
- development and evaluation of interventions to improve services
Advice on research activities
Includes all aspects of the delivery of health care.
Also includes the evaluation of the impact of non-specified or multiple treatments on a particular condition e.g. evaluation of health interventions on the prevalence of cardiovascular disease.
Includes service users’ experiences of health services.
Official terminology
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Full name of code |
Short name | Unique ID |
| 8.1 Organisation and delivery of services | 8.1 Delivery |
HRCS_RA_8_1 |
Related external links
Common Scientific Outline (CSO) – 6.4 Health Services, Economic and Health Policy Analyses
Main inclusion criteria
- development and/or distribution of resources and equipment for use by the community including informatics systems
- infrastructure support for trials, networks, consortia and centres
Official terminology
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Full name of code |
Short name | Unique ID |
| 7.4 Resources and infrastructure (disease management) | 7.4 Resources |
HRCS_RA_7_4 |
Related external links
Main inclusion criteria
Studies involving all issues related to palliative care and end of life care including:
- assessment of patient, service user and carer needs
- provision and evaluation of palliative and end of life care services
- quality of life for patients and carers
- evaluation of interventions for health and social care professionals
- social, economic and policy issues
- pain management for terminally ill people
- bereavement
Official terminology
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Full name of code |
Short name | Unique ID |
| 7.2 End of life care | 7.2 Palliative |
HRCS_RA_7_2 |
Related external links
Common Scientific Outline (CSO) – 6.6 End of Life Care
Main inclusion criteria
Studies of patients and service user care needs including:
- quality of life, management of acute and chronic symptoms, management of side effects, rehabilitation, long term morbidity and reproductive issues
- psychological impact of illness
- social and economic consequences of ill health
- behaviour affecting disease management including secondary prevention, compliance to treatment and attitudes and beliefs relating to seeking treatment
- assessment of social care and health services needs
- educational or communication interventions to promote self-care or improve health care by carers
- impact on carers
Advice on research activities
Includes research into or promoting management of diseases or conditions by service users such as user education and communication research.
Excludes services users experiences of health services which should be coded as 8.1 Organisation and delivery of services.
Do not use to code for the quality of life component of a therapeutic trial – code for the therapeutic investigation only.
Official terminology
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Full name of code |
Short name | Unique ID |
| 7.1 Individual care needs | 7.1 Individual needs |
HRCS_RA_7_1 |
Related external links
Common Scientific Outline (CSO) – 6.1 Patient Care and Survivorship Issues
Common Scientific Outline (CSO) – 6.3 Population-based Behaviour Factors
Main inclusion criteria
- provision and distribution of resources related to clinical and applied therapeutic interventions
- infrastructure support for clinical and applied research networks and trials, consortia and centres
Official terminology
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Full name of code |
Short name | Unique ID |
| 6.9 Resources and infrastructure (treatment evaluation) | 6.9 Resources |
HRCS_RA_6_9 |
Related external links
Common Scientific Outline (CSO) – 5.7 Resources and Infrastructure Related to Treatment
Main inclusion criteria
All aspects of testing, evaluation and provision of complementary approaches to conventional medicine in humans in a clinical, community or applied setting including:
- hypnotherapy, massage, acupuncture and homeopathy
- issues relating to health and social services and health care delivery
- attitudes and beliefs of patients and health care professionals
Official terminology
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Full name of code |
Short name | Unique ID |
| 6.8 Complementary | 6.8 Complementary |
HRCS_RA_6_8 |
Related external links
Common Scientific Outline (CSO) – 5.6 Complementary and Alternative Treatment Approaches