Meeting Support Services for the Applied Research Program

应用研究计划(ARP)是美国国家癌症研究所(NCI)癌症控制和人口科学部(DCCPS)的五个计划之一。ARP的使命是了解美国的癌症护理和控制活动如何以及为什么影响护理模式以及癌症发病率、发病率、死亡率和存活率的趋势。通过ARP支持方法学研究以改进调查数据收集和临床数据库，开发用于临床试验和观察性研究的评估工具，以及分析现有的癌症控制数据，实现这一使命是可能的。这些数据被用来评估癌症相关健康行为和风险因素、医疗保健服务、经济和结果的模式和趋势，包括患者报告的结果。ARP与受赠人以及许多公共和私人合作伙伴合作。ARP的研究计划、工具和资源在将研究知识转化为整个癌症控制连续体的有效政策方面做出了重要贡献。ARP支持的研究的目标是：*监测风险和健康行为，并开发评估这些行为的方法。*改进评估与癌症相关的暴露的方法。*监测人群中的癌症筛查行为。*审查癌症治疗在人群中的传播情况。*改进衡量和监测癌症护理质量的方法和系统。*在人口层面估计癌症干预的成本和收益。*描述和了解与癌症相关的健康差距。*改进问卷设计和测试方法。*改进有效的癌症控制干预措施的传播。每个领域的研究为癌症预防、治疗和控制的决策提供信息。工作人员还为其他NCI癌症预防和控制研究计划提供分析支持，以便在NCI范围内指导、评估和制定政策。

The Applied Research Program (ARP) is one of five programs in the National Cancer Institute's (NCI's) Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences (DCCPS). ARP's mission is to understand how and why cancer care and control activities in the United States influence patterns of care and trends in cancer incidence, morbidity, mortality and survival. Pursuit of this mission is possible through ARP's support of methodologic research to improve survey data collection and clinical databases, development of assessment tools for use in clinical trials and observational studies, as well as analysis of existing cancer control data. These data are used to evaluate patterns and trends in cancer-associated health behaviors and risk factors, health care services, economics, and outcomes, including patient-reported outcomes. ARP collaborates with grantees and many public and private partners. ARP's research initiatives, tools, and resources contribute in important ways to the translation of research knowledge into effective policies across the cancer control continuum. Research supported by ARP is targeted to: * Monitoring risk and health behaviors and developing methods to assess these behaviors. * Improving methods for assessing cancer-relevant exposures. * Monitoring cancer screening behaviors in populations. * Examining the dissemination of cancer treatment in populations. * Advancing methods and systems for measuring and monitoring quality of cancer care. * Estimating cost and benefit of cancer interventions at the population level. * Describing and understanding cancer-related health disparities. * Improving methods for questionnaire design and testing. * Improving dissemination of efficacious cancer control interventions. Research in each area informs policy decisions in cancer prevention, treatment, and control. Staff also provide analytical support to other NCI cancer prevention and control research programs for NCI-wide program guidance, evaluation, and policy development.