The mission of the Duke Center for Clinical Health Policy Research (CCHPR) is to encourage the formation and implementation of sound clinical health care policies.
Elements involved with the formation of clinical health policy include: understanding what the decision maker (doctor, patient, administrator) requires in order to make an informed decision, synthesizing and interpreting available evidence in a way that addresses those information needs, and establishing new research efforts to fill in gaps in existing knowledge.Implementation of clinical health policy involves analyzing current practices, comparing current practices with optimal practice, designing strategies for practice improvement, and evaluating the effects of these intervention strategies.
CCHPR addresses the entire spectrum of clinical health policy from its development using evidence-based approaches to strategies for optimal implementation.Our goal is to bridge theory and practice in a way that both advances the state of the scientific theory and is sufficiently pragmatic to actually improve health care practice.