ACCORDING to Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (2002), health services research examines how people get access to health care, how much care costs are incurred, and what happens to patients as a result of this care. The main goals of health services research are to identify the most effective ways to organize, manage, finance, and deliver high quality care; reduce medical errors; and improve patient safety.

Since its establishment in 2006, SingHealth Centre for Health Services Research (CHSR) works closely with clinicians, administrators and healthcare organizations as well as industry and other partners to provide pragmatic and insightful healthcare solutions. This collaborative approach ensures that solutions are both effective and efficient; yielding high-quality research that guides subsequent interventions that are cost-effective and practical. On the whole, the research that CHSR has undertaken can be broadly categorized into four main domains.