Patient Oriented Research
Research Spectrum
Patient oriented research (POR) occupies the patient to
population part of the health research spectrum that stretches from bench to
bedside to patient to population inquiry.
bench < > bedside < > patient < > population
Subjects of Study
POR studies people's health, individually and in aggregates such as families,
communities, or populations defined geographically or
demographically. It also studies health-related professions, institutions, and
systems.
patient < > person < > family < > community < > population
^ v ^ ^ v ^ ^ v ^
health-related professions < > institutions < >
systems
Objects of Study
The FAHC/UVM partnership that supports patient to population research
is committed to testing the proposition that POR, grounded in and related back
to health professions education, training, and practice, can positively affect
health care quality, cost, and access in Vermont, Northern New England, and
Northern New York State.
Institutional Location
At FAHC/UVM, POR has two sites. It begins at the General
Clinical Research Center on Baird 7 of Fletcher Allen's MCHV campus where
diverse, highly controlled, hospital-based clinical research projects are conducted,
including:
- studies of human physiology and disease, ex. exercise and recovery in
cardiovascular patients, energy metabolism in post-menopausal women, amino
acid metabolism and aging.
- inpatient and outpatient drug trials, ex. effects of psychomotor stimulant
drugs on smoking choice behavior.
- cancer chemotherapy trials, ex. phase I/II evaluations of new treatments
for squamous cell cancer.
- pharmaceutical industry trials, ex. new drug efficacy, safety, and
tolerability in Lou Gehrig's Disease patients.
It extends through the Office
of Patient Oriented Research, also on Baird 7, where diverse patient to
population health research projects are developed, targeting:
- medical center and community hospitals, ex. patient outcomes.
- medical practices, ex. health status, health promotion, disease
prevention.
- communities, ex. health care delivery services, practice
patterns.
- populations, ex. epidemiology and genetic epidemiology, health
surveillance.
- health-related professions, ex. medical education, training, practice
patterns.
- health-relevant institutions, ex. politics and policy,
legislative-regulatory, economic-financial, scientific-technical.
- health care systems, ex. types of delivery systems, entitlement programs.
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