Funding for health services research is dwindling even as health costs soar. Even where funding is available, primarily through the federal Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, there has been an alarming decrease in accepted grant proposals, representing more individually developed research, in favor of government contracts. In the absence of a dramatic increase in funding health services research, both the efficiency and effectiveness with which biomedical and clinical research innovations are translated into medical practice will be threatened.
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| Wilson H. Taylor Scholar Joseph Antos |
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Joseph Antos is the Wilson H. Taylor Scholar in Health Care and Retirement Policy at AEI. Emily J. Holubowich is the director of government relations at the Coalition for Health Services Research.




