The year in epidemiology, health services research, and outcomes research.

h r fi c l t m d w e u d e s e p f cholarship to guide practice and policies to enhance the ealth of patients and populations are in great demand. osts of health care continue to escalate, and questions bout the effectiveness and value of strategies to prevent and reat cardiovascular disease are growing in volume. In that ontext, this review highlights important investigations in utcomes research, health services research, and epidemiolgy published from April 2006 to March 2007. During this eriod, many prominent contributions have expanded our nderstanding of the patterns and burdens of cardiovascular isease; deficiencies, challenges, and opportunities in health are delivery and clinical decision-making; and the effect of nterventions designed to improve care. Although this eview cannot include every high-quality publication, it mphasizes representative work of particular interest or elevance to the topics of safety, effectiveness, equity, effiiency, and epidemiology/prevention.