Using Research to Inform Policy: A Large Conference Grant Proposal to Disseminate

描述（由申请人提供）：HCFO和AHRQ的使命不仅指导每个组织资助关于卫生保健成本、组织、市场和生产力的研究，而且还将其传播给决策者。特别是总统的2011年预算，将联邦政策制定者确定为AHRQ的“关键受众”。这项赠款活动的前提是发现成功的传播需要多种复杂的途径才能接触到政策受众。这种利益的汇合，加上每个组织的互补优势，为AHRQ和HCFO之间的伙伴关系创造了强有力的理由，扩大了双方有效和高效传播的能力。健康学院的HCFO团队提出了一系列召集活动，以帮助确保及时向政策受众传播有关卫生保健成本、组织、市场和生产力的相关研究，这些政策受众需要这些研究来实施卫生改革和制定新政策。具体而言，该项目将：1)建立一个哨兵机制，以确定当前和新出现的有关医疗保健成本、组织、市场和生产力的政策问题，并对这些问题进行了充分的相关研究；2)确定所有主要资助者支持的关于卫生保健费用、组织、市场和生产力的最新、做得最好的研究；3)为研究人员和政策制定者之间创造对话机会，讨论相关现有研究成果对所确定的政策问题的影响和局限性，并确定未来研究的议程。健康学院的HCFO团队每年将为25-40名参与者举办两次邀请传播会议。一个具有广泛代表性的咨询委员会将每年召开一次会议，根据(1)当前的政策相关性，特别强调卫生改革的实施；(2)研究中相关证据的可获得性；(3)以前传播工作中的差距，确定会议主题并确定优先顺序。咨询委员会成员也会就每次会议的议程和邀请名单向工作人员提供意见。参与者将包括具有适当专业知识的研究人员，他们来自最广泛的机构，以及适合每个主题的联邦、州和地方政策中介机构和代表。每次会议将综合现有的证据，并确定未来研究的重要差距。这些会议将产生背景文件、问题简报和网络研讨会，并通过互联网提供。每次会议的评价将用于改进以后会议的方法和主题。在中期和最终报告中，健康学院将使用参与者调查、互联网统计和咨询委员会反馈的信息来评估拨款。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): HCFO and AHRQ's missions direct each organization not only to fund research on health care costs, organizations, markets, and productivity, but also to disseminate it to policymakers. The President's 2011 Budget, in particular, identifies federal policymakers as a "critical audience" for AHRQ. The activities for this grant are premised on the finding that successful dissemination requires multiple, complex pathways to reach policy audiences. This confluence of interests, along with the complimentary strengths of each organization, creates a strong rationale for a partnership between AHRQ and HCFO that extends the capacity of both for effective, efficient dissemination. AcademyHealth's HCFO Team proposes a series of convening activities to help assure the timely dissemination of relevant research on health care costs, organizations, markets, and productivity to the policy audiences who need it to implement health reform and develop new policy. Specifically, this project will: 1) establish a sentinel mechanism to identify current and emerging policy issues concerning health care costs, organizations, markets, and productivity for which well-done relevant research exists; 2) identify the most current, well-done research on health care costs, organizations, markets, and productivity supported by all major funders of such work; and 3) create opportunities for dialogue among researchers and policymakers about the implications and limitations of relevant existing research findings for the policy questions identified and to identify agendas for future research. AcademyHealth's HCFO team will hold two invitational dissemination meetings of 25-40 participants each year of this grant. A broadly representative advisory committee will meet annually to identify and prioritize meeting topics based on (1) current policy relevance, with a particular emphasis on the implementation of health reform (2) availability of relevant evidence from research and (3) gaps in previous dissemination efforts. Members of the advisory committee will also advise staff about the agenda and invitation list for each meeting. Participants will include researchers with appropriate expertise drawn from the broadest array of institutions as well as federal, state, and local policy intermediaries and representatives appropriate to each topic. Each meeting will synthesize available evidence and identify important gaps for future study. The meetings will result in background papers, issue briefs, and webinars to be made available through the internet. Evaluations of each meeting will be used to refine the approach and topics of subsequent meetings. In interim and final reports, AcademyHealth will evaluate the grant using information from participant surveys, internet statistics, and feedback from the advisory committee. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: AcademyHealth seeks a Large Conference Support grant to partner with AHRQ to extend the capacity of both organizations to effectively and efficiently disseminate the research on health care costs, organizations, markets, and productivity to inform the implementation of health reform and development of new policy. This project will convene two invitational dissemination meetings of 25-40 high-level policy "intermediaries" and research experts per year over three years to synthesize evidence on current and emerging policy issues and to identify important gaps for future research to address. The meetings will result in background papers, issue briefs, and webinars to be made publicly available through the internet.