Duke SCORES - Surgical Center for Outcomes Research

Health services research (HSR) is the branch of population health science that addresses best processes and practices to optimize patient care. Innovations through HSR can facilitate optimal health care delivery at the population level, health system level, and individual patient level.

Duke SCORES (Surgical Center for Outcomes Research) is a novel, transdisciplinary effort that promotes excellence in HSR for various surgical patient populations. Duke SCORES will serve as a hub for education, research, mentorship, and resources to enable trainees and faculty to ask and answer questions with direct translational relevance to clinical research, patient care, safety, and quality improvement.

SCORES Scholars Program

The Duke SCORES Scholars Program provides funding of up to $15,000 per project for 12 months to catalyze investigations of key questions in surgical outcomes research. The goals of this program are to foster new collaborations among Duke researchers, support research teams in obtaining preliminary data that will be used to apply for larger awards, and provide opportunities for mentoring and training for junior faculty, residents and medical students.    For full program details, please click here.