New database on health services research in progress offered by NLM

New database on health services research in progress offered by NLM

HSRProj, a database providing access to ongoing grants and contracts in health services research, is available free from the National Library of Medicine (NLM). It has its own interface at www.nlm.nih.gov/hsrproj/. It is also available via the NLM Gateway (gateway.nlm.nih.gov). HSRProj is part of the "Other Collections" category of resources. The NLM Gateway is a Web-based system that allows users of NLM services to initiate searches in multiple retrieval systems from one interface, providing "one-stop searching" for many of NLM's information resources.

HSRProj contains descriptions of research in progress funded by federal and private grants and contracts for use by policy makers, managers, clinicians and other decision makers. It provides access to information about health services research in progress before results are available in a published form. Records cover grants and contracts awarded by major public and private funding agencies and foundations. Users can retrieve names of performing and sponsoring agencies, names and addresses of the principal investigator, beginning and ending years of the project, information about study design and methodology including demographic characteristics of the study group, number of subjects in the study population, population base of the study sample, and source of the project data. Records are indexed with NLM's Medical Subject Headings (MeSH®) and, when available, NIH's CRISP (Computer Retrieval of Information on Scientific Projects) keywords. Also, project descriptions are included whenever possible.

HSRProj is a joint effort of the AcademyHealth and the Cecil G. Sheps Center at the University of North Carolina with funding from the NLM. The National Information Center on Health Services Research and Health Care Technology (NICHSR) (www.nlm.nih.gov/nichsr/) coordinates its continued development for NLM.

For more information on accessing HSRProj using the NLM products, contact: NLM Customer Service, 1-888-FINDNLM (1-888-346-3656) (Voice) or custserv@nlm.nih.gov.

For more information on HSRProj content, contact the National Information, (301) 496-0176 (Voice), (301) 402-3193 (FAX), nichsr@nlm.nih.gov, or www.nlm.nih.gov/nichsr/nichsr.html.