Outcomes Management Conference: Quality of Cancer Care

这个为期1.5天的会议，“癌症护理质量：从证据到行动”，是第三次埃文斯顿西北医疗保健/西北大学主办的成果管理会议。会议将于2003年9月17日至18日举行。会议的目标是为与会者提供关于如何识别和衡量优质癌症护理的最新证据，沿着如何将这些证据融入实践的信息和方法。这将通过讲座，互动讨论，小组讨论和同行评审的海报演示相结合来实现。在整个过程中，会议将强调使用成果管理原则，广泛定义为在应用医疗环境中使用临床，质量和成本数据来改变实践和/或证明价值。开幕式主题演讲将由卡罗琳克兰西，医学博士，主任，机构医疗保健研究和质量（AHRQ）。克兰西博士将提供一个广泛的概述成果研究和成果管理面临的挑战和机遇，为具体的讲座和讨论奠定了基础。大卫纳什，医学博士，工商管理硕士，博士雷蒙德C。和Doris N.杰斐逊医学院健康政策的格兰登教授将给我们的闭幕主题演讲。Nash博士将从他丰富的工程成功成果管理经验中，反思会议的目标和目的，特别是关于乳腺癌诊断和治疗的演讲。会议将包括三个相互关联的会议：建立支持肿瘤学成果管理的证据库;肿瘤学成果管理的行动;以及乳腺癌特别研讨会。第一次会议将重点关注目前的证据基础的质量癌症。来自主要组织的代表将重点介绍目前在国家、地区或地方各级发生的与癌症相关的护理质量和/或绩效改善举措。小组讨论将介绍政府，提供者和病人的观点的挑战和问题所涉及的提供最佳的癌症护理。在第二次会议上，演讲者将描述肿瘤学的成果研究和绩效改进项目，这些项目说明了当前关于优质癌症护理的知识的成功实施。同行评审的海报会议将提出更多的研究结果。我们的总结会议将包括乳腺癌筛查/检测和治疗的质量和性能改进的介绍。会议记录将分发，会议摘要将提交同行评审出版。预计将有大约200-250人（医疗保健提供者、研究人员和管理人员）参加。

This 1.5 day conference, "The Quality of Cancer Care: From Evidence to Action," is the third Evanston Northwestern Healthcare/ Northwestern University-sponsored conference on outcomes management. The conference will be held on September 17th-18th, 2003. The conference goal is to provide participants with the latest evidence on how to identify and measure quality cancer care along with information and methods on how to integrate that evidence into practice. This will be accomplished via a combination of lectures, interactive discussions, panel discussions, and a peer-reviewed poster presentation. Throughout, the conference will emphasize the use of outcomes management principles, broadly defined as the use of clinical, quality, and cost data in applied medical settings to change practice and/or demonstrate value. An opening keynote address will be given by Carolyn Clancy, MD, Director, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). Dr. Clancy will provide a broad overview of the challenges and opportunities facing outcomes research and outcomes management, setting the stage for specific lectures and discussion to follow. David Nash, MD, MBA, the Dr. Raymond C. and Doris N. Grandon Professor of Health Policy at Jefferson Medical College, will give our closing keynote address. Speaking from his vast experience engineering successful outcomes management, Dr. Nash will reflect on the conference goals and objectives, specifically addressing the presentations on diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer. The conference will include three inter-related sessions: Building the Evidence Base to Support Outcomes Management in Oncology; Oncology Outcomes Management in Action; and a Special Symposium on Breast Cancer. The first session will focus on the current evidence base for quality cancer. Representatives from key organizations will highlight current cancer-related quality of care and/or performance improvement initiatives occurring at national, regional, or local levels. A panel discussion will present government, provider and patient perspectives on the challenges and issues involved in providing optimal cancer care. Presenters in the second session will describe outcomes research and performance improvement projects in oncology that illustrate successful implementation of current knowledge about quality cancer care. A peer-reviewed poster session will present additional research findings. Our concluding session will include presentations on quality and performance improvement in breast cancer screening/detection and treatment. Conference proceedings will be made for distribution, and a conference summary will be submitted for peer-reviewed publication. Approximately 200-250 people (health care providers, researchers, and administrators) are expected to attend.