Statistical Study Sections

The following statistical study sections are part of the Center for Scientific Review's (CSR's) Healthcare Delivery and Methodologies Integrated Review Group.

The Biostatistical Methods and Research Design (BMRD) Study Section reviews applications that seek to advance statistical and mathematical techniques and technologies applicable to the design and analysis of data from biomedical, behavioral, and social science research. Emphasis is on the promotion of quantitative methods to aid in the design, analysis, and interpretation of clinical and population based research studies. Specific areas covered by BMRD:

  • Research design: development and adaptation of methods for survey sample design; sample size determination; design issues for experimental and observational studies; randomized trial designs; methods to improve study design efficiencies
  • Data collection and measurement: development and adaptation of methods to estimate and improve data precision, reliability, and validity; methods to estimate and adjust for bias, measurement error, confounding, sampling and non-sampling error; psychometric methods
  • Data analysis and modeling: development of statistical theory, analytic methods and models, computational tools and algorithms for the analysis and interpretation of data from clinical studies, randomized trials, epidemiological studies, human genetic association studies, environmental studies, and complex surveys; methods to handle data features and anomalies such as correlation, clustering, missing and skewed data; risk prediction and forecasting methods; causal modeling; high dimensional data methods

Please visit the CSR Web site to review the BMRD Meeting Roster and SRA.

The Health Services Organization and Delivery (HSOD) Study Section reviews health services research studies that include multidisciplinary investigations of the predictors, processes and outcomes of health services, including availability, access and acceptability; organization; decision-making; delivery, utilization, and quality of care; and costs, cost-effectiveness and financing of health care. Health services include inpatient, outpatient, sub-acute, acute, community-based, rehabilitative and long-term care. Specific areas covered by HSOD:

  • Community, provider, economic, technological, and management resources and support, including studies of supply and area market behaviors; health care provider characteristics; health insurance, reimbursement, and financing mechanisms; health care management technology and assessment of emerging technology; health care delivery system characteristics.
  • Health needs and health services utilization; studies of severity of illness; comorbidity; risk prediction and risk adjustment; psychosocial and economic factors related to health care; and adherence to health care recommendations.
  • Healthcare organizations, programs, and delivery of services; including those delivered in non-traditional settings; integrated care delivery systems; disease management and modeling; continuous quality improvement; characteristics of the organization and patient outcomes; organizational performance and efficiency; cost-benefit analysis; economics of health care and pharmacoeconomics.
  • Healthcare quality, effectiveness, and outcomes; clinical practice guidelines; treatment and prevention outcomes; patient and provider satisfaction; health status and outcomes assessment; evidence-based practice; health-related quality of life; medical decision-making.
  • Health disparities; access to health care; cost of health care; organizational programs for health advocacy; evaluation of public-private collaborative and inter-organizational network services delivery; formal and informal care provision.

Please visit the CSR Web site to review the HSOD Meeting Roster and SRA.

Other relevant Study Sections for Biostatistical grants include the following: