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

描述（由申请人提供）：HCFO和AHRQ的使命指示每个组织不仅要资助对医疗保健成本，组织，市场和生产力的研究，而且要将其传播给政策制定者。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”。这项赠款的活动是基于这样一个发现，即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，沿着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，这种伙伴关系扩大了双方有效、高效传播的能力。AcademyHealth的HCFO团队提出了一系列召集活动，以帮助确保及时传播有关医疗保健成本，组织，市场和生产力的相关研究，以政策受众谁需要它来实施卫生改革和制定新的政策。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，这些问题已经有了很好的相关研究; 2）确定所有主要资助者支持的关于医疗保健成本，组织，市场和生产力的最新，最好的研究;为研究人员和政策制定者之间就已确定的政策问题的相关现有研究结果的影响和局限性进行对话创造机会，并确定未来研究的议程。AcademyHealth的HCFO团队每年将举行两次邀请25-40名参与者的传播会议。一个具有广泛代表性的咨询委员会将每年举行一次会议，根据（1）当前政策的相关性，特别是卫生改革的实施情况，（2）研究中相关证据的可用性，（3）以前传播工作的差距，确定会议主题并确定优先次序。谘询委员会成员亦会就每次会议的议程及邀请名单，向员工提供意见。与会者将包括研究人员与适当的专业知识，从最广泛的机构，以及联邦，州和地方的政策中介机构和代表适当的每一个主题。每次会议都将综合现有证据，并确定今后研究的重要差距。这些会议将产生背景文件、问题简报和网络研讨会，通过互联网提供。对每次会议的评价将用于改进以后会议的方法和议题。在中期和最终报告中，AcademyHealth将使用参与者调查，互联网统计数据和咨询委员会的反馈信息来评估赠款。 公共卫生相关性：AcademyHealth寻求与AHRQ合作的大型会议支持赠款，以扩展两个组织的能力，有效和高效地传播有关医疗保健成本，组织，市场和生产力的研究，以告知卫生改革的实施和新政策的制定。该项目将在三年内每年召开两次由25至40名高级别政策“中间人”和研究专家参加的邀请传播会议，以综合关于当前和新出现的政策问题的证据，并查明今后研究需要解决的重要差距。这些会议将产生背景文件、问题简报和网络研讨会，通过互联网向公众提供。

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.