Defining Research to Improve Health Systems
Open Access
- 17 November 2010
- journal article
- editorial
- Published by Public Library of Science (PLoS) in PLoS Medicine
- Vol. 7 (11) , e1001000
- https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001000
Abstract
Robert Terry and colleagues present working definitions of operational research, implementation research, and health systems research within the context of research to strengthen health systems.Keywords
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