Center For Healthcare Outcomes & Policy

CHOP evaluates healthcare delivery with an interdisciplinary team including health services researchers, clinician scientists, economists, biostatisticians, implementation scientists and qualitative experts. 

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People

Meet the team behind the Center for Healthcare Outcomes & Policy.

Research

Learn more about our groundbreaking research.

Education

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Community & Mentorship at CHOP

CHOP offers broad range of in-person programming for faculty and trainees at every career stage and across multiple domains for healthcare outcomes and policy research. Members at CHOP within the Institute for Healthcare Policy & Innovation (IHPI) have access to a wide array of resources throughout the research and grant writing processes. Our goal is to foster mentorship and collaboration across the University of Michigan for investigators in the field of health outcomes research.

  • Friday Seminars: Every Friday, we gather in-person for a collection of didactic and work-in-progress sessions. 

  • K-Award Writing Group: The K-Award Writing group gathers on Friday afternoons for small group feedback on K awards. 

  • Mock Study Section: In partnership with the Institute for Health Policy and Innovation (IHPI), we host formal mock study sections with reviewers, to provide grant writers with robust feedback prior to their grant submission.

  • Data & Donuts: These educational sessions take place every other Tuesday during the academic year, so CHOP statisticians, fellows and staff can gather to brush up on their skills and learn new methods. 

  • Qual & Capps: These qualitative work-in-progress sessions with cappuccinos take place every other Friday afternoon during the academic year. 

  • Medicare 101: The CHOP team offers workshops to help orient members on new uses to the Medicare claims data.
  • Writing for Impact: CHOP offers several workshops throughout the year focused on writing.
  • SPARC (Surgical Practice AI Research Community): These monthly sessions focus on artificial intelligence in surgery and spark discussion among those interested in being more involved with AI.
  • Journal Club on Understanding Methods & Presentations (JUMP): A journal club one Friday a month at 10 am focused on health services research study design and methods by drawing on a mix of current and cornerstone literature in the field.

Contact
Center for Healthcare Outcomes & Policy
North Campus Research Complex
2800 Plymouth Road, Building 16
Ann Arbor, MI 48109

Featured News & Stories

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Minding Memory

Exposure to a Natural Disaster and Long-term Cognition

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Well-Being at Michigan Medicine

Episode 1: The Enterprise Triad

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Older women more likely to receive heart surgery, die at low quality hospitals

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Primary care scarcity linked to more surgical emergencies, problems

Patients living in areas with the worst shortages of primary care providers are more likely to have emergency surgery, surgical complications and hospital readmissions.
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Opioid limits didn’t change surgery patients’ experience, study shows

Surgical opioid prescription limits reduced the number of narcotic pills patients received after their operations, but didn’t lead to worse pain scores or less satisfaction.