Recent recorded grades — Spring 2026: 3.33 GPA, 66.7% A/AB (n=6 letter grades).
Spring 2027
Introduction to Health Services Research
Introduces perspectives, substantive areas, and methodological approaches to health services research, providing a foundation for understanding the structure, process, and outcomes of the U.S. health care system.
offering recorded3 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 Marietou Ouayogode
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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2023: 3.70 GPA, 93.3% A/AB (n=15 letter grades); Spring 2024: 3.50 GPA, 72.7% A/AB (n=11 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.33 GPA, 66.7% A/AB (n=6 letter grades).
What you’ll be able to do
Describe the broad aims and the major content areas of health services research.
Identify a study’s research questions, hypotheses, theoretical framework, study design, methodological approaches, and conclusions.
Identify the strengths and limitations of prominent experimental and quasi-experimental designs as implemented in HSR, the assumptions each relies upon, and specific methods to assess plausibility of each assumption.
Assess, and identify feasible methods to improve, the internal and external validity of a specific research study.
Gain facility with key methods of professional communication about health services research studies (conference presentation, discussion, and referee report).
Source: UW Guide
Grade history
↗ average GPA
208208 letter grades
A48.1%48.1%
AB39.4%39.4%
B9.1%9.1%
BC3.4%3.4%
C0.0%0.0%
D0.0%0.0%
F0.0%0.0%
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Prerequisites
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- Graduate/professional standing
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- Graduate/professional standing
Professors
Spring 2027Historical instructors & teaching patterns
MARIETOU OUAYOGODE is recorded teaching in Spring 2026. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.
Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.
Calendar & sections
Spring 2027Schedule loads here as you scroll.
| Section | Mode | Enrolled / capacity | Waitlist |
|---|---|---|---|
| LEC 001 | Classroom Instruction | 0 / 20 | 0 |
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Student experience
the class
Recent recorded grades — Spring 2023: 3.70 GPA, 93.3% A/AB (n=15 letter grades); Spring 2024: 3.50 GPA, 72.7% A/AB (n=11 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.33 GPA, 66.7% A/AB (n=6 letter grades).
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Topics
- Structure, process, and outcomes of the U.S. health care system.
- Broad aims and major content areas of health services research.
- Experimental and quasi-experimental designs in health services research.
Skills
- Identify research questions, hypotheses, frameworks, designs, and conclusions in studies.
- Evaluate strengths, limitations, and assumptions of experimental and quasi-experimental designs.
- Assess and propose improvements for internal and external validity of research studies.
- Communicate health services research through presentations, discussions, and referee reports.
Grades
Latest available · Spring 2026— not enough history to project Spring 2027.
average GPA
A / AB grades
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Instructor
Grade distribution · % of letter grades
A16.7%16.7%
AB50.0%50.0%
B16.7%16.7%
BC16.7%16.7%
C0.0%0.0%
D0.0%0.0%
F0.0%0.0%
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Introduction to Health Services Research
Recorded 2026-10-14Raw records
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