Using Clinical Guidelines to Improve the Care of Older Persons Conference

描述：(由申请人提供)明尼苏达大学老龄中心将于2006年6月主办一次会议：“使用临床指南改善对老年人的护理”。这次夏季研究所/会议将汇集临床从业者、研究人员、卫生保健管理人员和公共政策制定者，探讨如何将现有的老年人慢性护理问题管理指南纳入各种地点的实践中，包括办公室实践和疗养院。它将审查在让实践环境对老年患者使用指南方面所取得的成功和面临的挑战。我们这次会议的目标是超越对问题的赞赏，激励和帮助一群实践环境在他们的护理例行公事中引入一个或多个指导方针。 该研究所旨在实现AHRQ会议的目标，即召开一次传播会议，总结研究结果，并向有能力利用这些信息改善卫生保健服务的结果、质量、获取途径、成本和利用的组织和个人广泛传播。然而，它超越了仅仅传播会议记录的通常做法，列入了将成果付诸实践的执行部分。 本次会议的一项核心成果是开展协作，以确定和推荐实用工具或战略，以加快实施影响老年人护理的最佳循证做法。一个目标是确定几个提供门诊和养老院护理的地点，这些地点愿意实施一项或多项指导方针，并测试这样做的效果。在这方面，该提案与AHRQ的另一个类别重叠：制定一项研究议程，目标是确定和/或开发成功的做法改变工具，以加强改善护理提供的执行情况。会议的工作将有助于今后改进老年护理最佳做法执行情况的研究议程。在会议结束时，该区域内不同群体(提供者、付款人、监管机构、消费者权益倡导者)之间将结成一个或多个创新伙伴关系，以合作创建必要的基础设施，以促进和促进在整个医疗保健系统中使用实践变革工具。 拟议的会议是代表所有受影响的几个团体合作的结果 选民；政策机构、学者、提供者、QIO和消费者组织。选择演讲者是因为他们的研究成果和/或他们在影响系统变化方面的实际经验。

DESCRIPTION: (Provided by the Applicant) The University of Minnesota Center on Aging will sponsor a conference in June 2006: "Using Clinical Guidelines to Improve the Care of Older Persons." This Summer Institute/conference will bring together clinical practitioners, researchers, health care administrators, and public policymakers to explore ways in which extant guidelines for managing chronic care problems among older persons can be incorporated into practice at various sites including office practice and nursing homes. It will examine the successes and challenges faced in getting practice settings to use guidelines with older patients. Our goal for this conference is to move beyond admiring the problem, to inspiring and assisting a group of practice settings to introduce one or more guidelines into their care routines. The Institute is designed to meet the AHRQ conference goal of a dissemination conference where research findings will be summarized and communicated broadly to organizations and individuals that have the capability to use the information to improve the outcomes, quality, access to, and cost and utilization of health care services. However, it goes beyond the usual approach of merely disseminating the conference proceedings to include an implementation component to put the results into practice. A central outcome of this conference is a collaborative to identify and recommend practical tools or strategies that will speed implementation of the best evidence-based practices that impact care for older adults. One goal will be to identify several sites providing ambulatory and nursing home care that are willing to implement one or more guidelines and test the effects of doing so. To this extent, the proposal overlaps with another AHRQ category: Development of a research agenda that targets identification and/or development of successful practice change tools that will enhance implementation of improvements in care delivery. The work of the conference will contribute to the future research agenda for improving implementation of best practices in geriatric care. At the conclusion of the conference, one or more innovative partnerships among a variety of constituencies within the region (providers, payers, regulators, consumer advocates,) will form to collaborate on creating the necessary infrastructure to promote and facilitate utilization of practice change tools throughout health care systems. The proposed conference is the result of a collaboration of several groups representing all affected constituencies; policy institutes, academics, providers, QIOs, and consumer organizations. The speakers have been chosen because of their research findings and/or because of their real-world experience in affecting system change.