IMPROVEMENT SCIENCE SUMMIT: A RESEARCH METHODS CONFERENCE

描述（由申请人提供）：通过提高质量和患者安全举措来改变医疗保健是国家的优先事项。然而，在这一领域，没有足够的研究，没有足够的严谨性，很少有科学家从事研究来证明哪些举措是有效的，哪些是可以在不同的环境中推广的，哪些是能够持续的。作为卫生专业教育中一个相对较新的能力，国家研究质量改进的研究能力远远落后于发现“什么有效”的需要，而且很少有合作和基础设施来推进这一领域。这项拨款申请提议将改进科学峰会作为一个对所有人开放的，为期一天半的会议，以推进改进研究的方法，主题和合作。利用与国家资助的改进科学研究网络（Stevens, 2009a）所创造的势头的密切配合，这次首脑会议将对卫生保健科学家和实践学者严格评估改进战略的国家能力作出重大贡献。峰会计划将由改善科学研究网络指导委员会的国家领导人规划。会议的目标是推进思维、方法、基础设施和国家研究伙伴关系能力进行严谨的改进研究。会议结束后，将出版材料，以便通过一些场所更广泛地传播。材料分发将包括主要演讲、会议记录和手稿的流媒体视频记录。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Transforming health care through quality improvement and patient safety initiatives is a national priority. Yet in this field, there is insufficient research, insufficient rigor, and few scientists engaged in studies to demonstrate which initiatives are effective, which are amenable to spread across settings, and which are capable of sustainment. As a relatively new competency in health professional education, the nation's research capacity to study quality improvement falls well behind the need to discover 'what works' and there are few collaboratives and little infrastructure to advance the field. This grant application proposes the Improvement Science Summit as an open-to-all, 1 1/2 day conference to advance methodology, topics, and collaboration in improvement research. Leveraging a close alignment with the momentum created by the nationally-funded Improvement Science Research Network (Stevens, 2009a), this Summit will contribute significantly to national capacity of health care scientists and practice scholars to rigorously evaluate improvement strategies. The Summit program will be planned by the national leaders of the Improvement Science Research Network Steering Council. The conference goal is to move forward the thinking, methods, infrastructure, and national research partnership capacity to conduct rigorous improvement research. Following the conference, materials will be published for wider dissemination through a number of venues. Materials distribution will include streaming video recordings of key presentations, conference proceedings, and manuscripts. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: Public Health Relevance Statement Quality improvement and patient safety in healthcare are high priorities held by the federal government, accrediting bodies, regulatory agencies, and patient-advocacy groups; yet insufficient progress has been made in developing the underlying science about how to improve effectiveness and safety in a systems context. The goal of this project is to provide a conference venue in which the nation's healthcare providers and scientists can engage in developing, launch rigorous improvement research studies, and expand capacity to do so, with a target of accelerating interprofessional studies that show us how to make care safe and effective in acute care settings.