The Center for Health Quality, Outcomes, and Economics Research was established in 1990 as a multidisciplinary health services research center, based at the Edith Nourse Rogers Memorial Veterans Hospital, Bedford, Massachusetts. CHQOER is also an integral part of the Department of Health Services at the Boston University School of Public Health. 

CHQOER investigators have access to a wide range of databases, including the rich clinical and administrative databases of the national VA health care system, and other resources that may be used in research projects.  We emphasize multidisciplinary collaboration and the creative combination of diverse research methods.  The large, diverse faculty of CHQOER includes research professionals representing the disciplines of medicine, nursing, dentistry, sociology, psychology, epidemiology, and statistics. 

The Center's three research priority areas are: patient-centered care, medication effectiveness, and patient safety.  Across these domains, researchers develop innovative methodologies and models of care to provide the most effective, efficient and appropriate care to our nation's veterans.