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Sarah FloydAssistant ProfessorOffice: 325.1 (Greenville) or 516 Edwa Phone: (864) 656-5865 Email: sbf@clemson.edu Vita: View | |
Educational BackgroundPhD Health Services Research MPH Epidemiology BSHP Health Promotion | Courses TaughtHLTH 2030: Overview of Health Care Systems
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ProfileI am a health services researcher with research interests surrounding treatment variation and treatment effectiveness in musculoskeletal medicine. I also am interested in health care quality and health system performance. I was a Junior Service Fellow at the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality in the summer of 2013 and earned my Ph.D. from the University of Florida in 2016. I served as a postdoctoral fellow and research assistant professor at the University of South Carolina and the Center for Effectiveness Research in Orthopaedics (CERortho) from 2016-2020. My current research is focused on generating personalized comparative effectiveness evidence and using “practice-based evidence” to develop rapid learning or clinical decision support tools which can summarize personalized evidence during the clinical encounter. My long-term research goal is to discover ways in which we can deliver the best evidence to physicians to inform treatment decisions and improve clinical practice and patient outcomes. I am a PI on an AHRQ-funded research study using NLP to develop a measure of treatment success using clinical notes, in addition to being a co-investigator on an AHRQ-funded R01, R18, and SAMHSA award. I enjoy leading research projects within the health system and working collaboratively with clinicians and other researchers. I have ongoing research partnerships with Prisma Health, MUSC, and Shriners Hospital for Children. | |
Research InterestsComparative effectiveness research, practice-based evidence for clinical practice improvement, health system performance, orthopaedic/musculoskeletal medicine, personalized treatment evidence, clinical decision support Research PublicationsFloyd, S.B., Sarasua, S.M., Pill, S.G.et al.(2022). Factors Related to Initial TreatmentforAdhesive Capsulitis in the Medicare Population.BMC Geriatr22,548. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12877-022-03230-0
Honors and AwardsCOBRE SC-TRIMH Research Project Leader |