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In this issue of Health Services Research, we are pleased to publish the sixth installment of our featured section, “The Best of the 2017 AcademyHealth Annual ResearchMeeting (ARM).”We publish annually a set of articles based on abstracts submitted to the ARM and selected to be outstanding by both reviewers from the ARM themes andHSR’s own editorial staff and reviewers. HSR has been an official journal of AcademyHealth for many years, and this new feature is the latest in a string of successful collaborative efforts intended to showcase significant work in the field of health services research in a timely manner. Early in 2017, we requested from AcademyHealth staff members the highest scoring abstracts from each of the ARM themes whose authors had indicated an interest in “Best of ARM” publication. From approximately 40 abstracts, the editors of HSR invited 16 authors to submit a full manuscript for consideration for publication. The submitted manuscripts went through expedited review, and five of the accepted articles appear in this issue. Wewould like to thank AcademyHealth staff, particularly Andrea Fendt, for their assistance in enabling this special feature, as well as our own editorial staff and reviewers in expediting the review process for these manuscripts. Authors who would like to be considered for HSR’s Best of ARM publication in 2018 should consult the instructions provided with the 2018 ARM abstract solicitation from AcademyHealth. We hope that our readers find value in this new feature and look forward to future contributions. Disclosures:None. Disclaimer:None.