AHA Committee on Research (COR)

The Committee on Research (COR) of the American Hospital Association has annual and triennial tasks that focus on developing the AHA Research Agenda. The committee monitors the process toward answering the AHA Research Agenda questions and studying a topic in depth for reporting to the AHA Board and the field. The committee will be co-chaired by the AHA Chair-Elect and the HRET Board Chair. The committee convened for the first time in 2009.

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Research Agenda Areas

• Quality/Cost/Disparities: Management research to provide operational advice on improving quality, reducing costs, and eliminating disparities.
  
  
• Care Coordination: Management and policy research to identify best practices in care coordination and evaluation of effective care coordination practices.
  
  
• Payment Reform: Policy research to develop, test, and evaluate new models of payment reform.
  
  
• Leadership/Governance: Management research to support leadership and governance in improvement.
  
  
• Translational Research: Identifying and executing strategies and methods to disseminate and implement research findings, knowledge, tools, and best practices.
  
  
• Quantitative Research: Analysis of secondary data associated with health care performance across multiple dimensions.

To answer these research questions, the research may be conducted by HRET, other parts of AHA or outside of AHA through partnerships with other organizations. Additionally, the research may involve new research or a synthesis of available research.