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

描述(由申请人提供)：HCFO和AHRQ的使命不仅指示每个组织资助关于医疗保健成本、组织、市场和生产力的研究，而且还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”。这笔赠款的活动的前提是发现，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，再加上每个组织的优势互补，形成了一个强有力的理由，使AHRQ和HCFO之间建立伙伴关系，扩大两者有效、高效传播的能力。Academy emyHealth的HCFO团队提出了一系列召集活动，以帮助确保将有关医疗保健成本、组织、市场和生产率的相关研究及时传播给需要实施医疗改革和制定新政策的政策受众。具体地说，这个项目将：1)建立一个哨兵机制，以确定与医疗保健成本、组织、市场和生产力有关的当前和新出现的政策问题，并对其进行完善的相关研究；2)确定最新的、做得最好的关于医疗保健成本、组织、市场和生产力的研究，并得到此类工作的所有主要资助者的支持；以及3)创造机会，让研究人员和政策制定者就现有相关研究结果对已确定的政策问题的影响和局限性进行对话，并确定未来研究的议程。每年，Academy emyHealth的HCFO团队将举行两次有25-40名参与者参加的邀请性传播会议。一个具有广泛代表性的咨询委员会将每年举行会议，根据(1)当前政策相关性确定会议议题并确定优先次序，特别强调卫生改革的实施；(2)研究相关证据的可获得性；(3)以前宣传工作中的差距。咨询委员会成员还将就每次会议的议程和邀请名单向工作人员提供意见。参与者将包括来自最广泛的机构以及联邦、州和地方政策中介机构的具有适当专业知识的研究人员，以及适合每个主题的代表。每次会议都将综合现有证据，并为今后的研究找出重要差距。这些会议将通过互联网提供背景文件、问题简报和网络研讨会。将利用对每一次会议的评价来改进后续会议的方法和议题。在中期和最终报告中，Academy emyHealth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。 与公共卫生相关：Academy Health寻求一大笔会议支助赠款，以便与AHRQ合作，扩大两个组织的能力，有效和高效地传播关于医疗保健成本、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25-40名高级别政策“中间人”和研究专家参加的邀请性传播会议，以综合关于当前和新出现的政策问题的证据，并确定未来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，这些文件将通过互联网公开提供。

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.