NEW RESEARCH AGENDA FOR CLINICAL PREDICTIVE INSTRUMENTS

本申请是为了支持召开一次研究发展会议，该会议将召开一次专家会议，以阐明临床预测仪器研究的研究议程，目的是增加其在临床实践中的影响，并为国家预测仪器研究中心(CPIR)制定研究议程。为了解决这两个问题，我们建议召开一次会议，将与预测工具研究密切相关的领域的思想和方法领导者聚集在一起，目标是重新制定预测工具研究的研究议程，概述拟议的CPIR要解决的关键领域。本次会议还将产生适当分发的相关摘要文件：一份关于总议程的一般性文件，供公众分发，以及一份有助于确定CPIR议程的文件，供内部使用。前一份报告将主要是对临床预测仪器使用情况的一般性审查，其中将包括对需要进一步工作的领域的一般性讨论。后一份报告将更具体地总结会议的讨论情况，并将其转化为关于CPIR具体计划的建议。会议暂定于2001年11月9日在波士顿公园广场酒店举行。

This application is for support to conduct a Research Development Conference that will convene a meeting of experts for the dual purposes of articulating a research agenda for clinical predictive instrument research with the objective of increasing their impact in clinical practice, and framing a research agenda for a National Center for Predictive Instrument Research (CPIR). To address these twin issues, we propose to have a conference that will bring together the thought and methods leaders in the closely-related areas to predictive instrument research, with the goal of reframing the research agenda for predictive instrument research, outlining the key areas for a proposed CPIR to address. This conference will also generate relevant summary documents for appropriate dissemination: a general document about the general agenda, for public dissemination, and a document that will help set the CPIR's agenda, which will be for internal use. The former report would be primarily a general review of the use of clinical predictive instruments that would include a general discussion of areas in which further work is needed. The latter report would more specifically summarize the conference's discussions and would translate them into suggestions for the specific plans for a CPIR. The conference is tenatively scheduled for November 9, 2001 at the Boston Park Plaza Hotel.