Abstracts by keywords: Improvement Science
Health services research facing new challenges
In recent years, expectations of health care research in Germany, especially from a health policy perspective, have increased enormously [4, 5]. The main reasons are not only general social developments, but also the need for comprehensive improvement efforts and the need for effective structural innovations. Health services research must therefore continuously and comprehensibly develop its conceptual foundations, as is the aim in the memoranda of the German Network for Health Care Research and in the completely revised 2nd edition of the “Textbook for Health Care Research” [2].