The Staff Fellow (Health Services Researcher) serves as a member of the AHRQ Quality Indicators (QI) team, providing technical expertise in developing, refining, disseminating, and advancing the QI methodology and products. The AHRQ QIs are a critical part of the AHRQ/CDOM array of health care decision making and research tools developed for use by program managers,researchers, and others at the federal, state, and local levels. Major assignments involve participating as a member of the AHRQ QI team in project formulation; planning and carrying out complex quantitative and methodological research; providing technical oversight of analytic activities; analyzing findings; and preparing reports presenting results.
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The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) is responsible for producing evidence to make health care safer, higher quality, more accessible, equitable, and affordable, and to work with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and other partners to ensure the evidence is understood and used.
This position is located in the Center for Delivery, Organization and Markets (CDOM). CDOM provides a locus of leadership and expertise for advances in health care delivery, organization, and markets through research. The Center conducts, supports, and manages studies and programs designed to give health care leaders and policy makers the information and tools they need to improve quality of care in the health care system. Performance in this context includes quality, safety, effectiveness, access, cost, and efficiency. CDOM generates evidence on how health care delivery and organization dynamics affect performance. The Center’s ultimate goal is to improve health care by advancing evidence-based decision making in organizations and the public policy arena. The Staff Fellow works with the Quality Indicators team within CDOM’s Division of Healthcare Delivery Data, Measures, and Research.
SALARY RANGE:
$107,325.00 to $139,523.00 / Per Year
OPEN PERIOD:
Friday, May 15, 2015 to Friday, June 12, 2015
POSITION INFORMATION:
Full Time - Excepted Service Time-Limited NTE three years
DUTY LOCATIONS:
Montgomery County, MD