CHOP Research

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Explore Our Work

Discover current research at CHOP.

Interdisciplinary Health Services Research

CHOP's work is led by twelve R01-funded principal investigators with over $30 million in extramural funding. Our work has been cited by over 50 government and policy organizations worldwide, including the World Health Organization, the Department of Justice, MedPAC, AHRQ and Bipartisan Policy Center. 

Our research is supported by significant extramural funding from AHRQ and NIH across a broad range of domains and methodologies. These serve as foundations for our work supported through other mechanisms (e.g. training grants, career development grants, and foundation grants.)

  1. Rapid Adoption of Robotic Surgery: Risks, Benefits, and Unintended Consequences (Drs. Justin Dimick & Kyle Sheetz)
  2. Evaluating the Impact of Telemedicine on Ambulatory Care (Dr. Mike Thompson)
  3. Combining Policy and Implementation Science to Optimize Clinical Practice (Dr. Dana Telem)
  4. Fulfilling the Promise of Hospital Consolidation to Improve Clinical Quality and Costs (Drs. Andrew Ibrahim & Hari Nathan)
  5. Insurance Coverage and Workforce Incentives to Improve Access to Surgical Care (Dr. Andrew Ibrahim)
  6. Standardization of Evaluation to Treatment of pediatric perianal Crohns disease and improving Outcomes through Networking (Dr. Samir Gadepalli)
  7. De-implementation of Low-Value Testing in Patients Undergoing Low-Risk Surgery (Drs. Hari Nathan & Lesly Dossett)
  8. Evaluation of the Implementation and Effectiveness of the American College of Surgeons Operative Standards Program (Dr. Lesly Dossett)
  9. Development and Implementation of the REmote Telehealth User-Reported caNcer Surveillance (RETURNS) Program for Lung Cancer (Dr. David Odell)
  10. Understanding and Addressing Variation in Healthcare-Associated Infections After Durable Ventricular Assist Device Therapy (Dr. Donald Likosky)
  11. Novel Assessments of Technical and Non-Technical Cardiac Surgery Quality (Dr. Donald Likosky)
  12. Understanding and Addressing Variation in Healthcare-Associated Infections After Adult Cardiac Surgery (Dr. Donald Likosky)
  13. Addressing Structural Racism in Heart Failure Care and Outcomes: A Mixed Methods Evaluation of The Social Structure of Care Delivery (Dr. Donald Likosky)
  14. Surgeons as High-Performance Athletes: Applying Player Development Strategies from Professional Sport to Enhance Surgical Performance (Dr. Donald Liksoky)
  15. Optimizing Prevention of Healthcare-Acquired Infections After Cardiac Surgery (Dr. Donald Likosky)
  16. Risk stratified survivorship care pathways for early-onset colorectal cancer (Dr. Amy Suwanabol)
  17. A Multi-level Intervention to Reduce Total Thyroidectomy Overuse for Low-Risk Cancer (Dr. Susan Pitt)
  18. Sex as a Biologic Variable in Groin Hernia (Dr. Annie Ehlers)

CHOP and our collaborators conducts research across various areas, each led by an expert in the field. 

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