Research sections
The Division of Health Care Delivery Research advances the understanding and delivery of effective, efficient and high-quality healthcare through the broad expertise of its faculty and research professionals. This expertise includes:
- Access to care.
- Analysis of secondary data.
- Artificial intelligence.
- Biostatistics.
- Economic and health technology evaluations.
- Evaluation of clinical practice innovations.
- Health disparities and healthcare equity.
- Health services utilization patterns.
- Healthcare communication.
- Healthcare professional organization and management.
- Healthcare systems engineering.
- Human factors engineering.
- Implementation science.
- Machine learning.
- Operations research.
- Qualitative methods.
- Quality measurement.
- Survey methods.
The division's scientific experts support or lead investigations in collaboration with clinicians across Mayo Clinic. They address problems and advance new, cutting-edge strategies to improve practice.
These strategies include:
- Advanced predictive modeling. As different COVID-19 variants moved across the country, predictive modeling helped Mayo respond nimbly to staffing changes, personal protective equipment and other supply needs, and ICU capacity challenges.
- Care team wellness and performance. Analysis of mental and physical workload and ergonomics helped with the development and implementation of interventions that allow surgical teams to provide high-quality surgical care safely and reliably.
- Healthcare professional team mix. The division developed a mathematical way to determine the optimal healthcare professional team mix among medical doctors, advanced-practice professionals and residents to ensure continuity of patient care for the Department of Family Medicine.
- Enhanced perioperative care. The division implemented and evaluated the use of venous thromboembolism risk stratification and prophylaxis for patients receiving elective surgical procedures.