Healthcare policy development and decision making in many areas benefit from sound statistical information and analysis, presented in accessible form. Yet too often, sophisticated analyses are published only in technical journals and not delivered in useable ways to the policy makers who rely on them to guide decisions.
Benefits
The Thomson Reuters statistical informatics group optimizes the delivery of statistical information to federal and state government decisionmakers and analysts as well as other customers. We draw on our statistical expertise in a range of activities, including conducting statistical analyses, managing data development, determining sample size and power requirements, recommending methods and approaches for solving particular problems, presenting statistical results to both technical and non-technical audiences, and consulting on and implementing statistical computing using a variety of languages such as SAS and Stata.
Impact
Thomson Reuters statistical expertise has informed prominent national analyses and policy debates. For example, Thomson Reuters contributed statistical expertise to the nation’s annual report card on healthcare quality — the congressionally mandated National Healthcare Quality Report and National Healthcare Disparities Report, produced by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). In addition, Thomson Reuters is now helping AHRQ develop composite statistical measures for these reports in order to make the quality assessments more useful to diverse user communities, including policy makers, providers, patients, the press, and the public.