Doing Research at the Front Line of Improving Healthcare

描述(由申请人提供)：医疗保健改进学院会议在改善医疗保健的第一线开展研究2013年4月25日至26日，华盛顿特区大都市区摘要医疗保健提供的转型需要一支拥有测量、质量改进(QI)科学和QI研究专业知识的员工队伍。迫切需要能够将严格的传统卫生服务研究与严格的QI科学和QI研究相结合的研究人员，这些研究人员的特点是多学科研究人员和实际使用QI科学来改善护理的一线提供者之间建立了强有力的合作伙伴关系。在这一需求得到满足之前，研究改善健康结果和提供保健服务的速度和影响将继续缓慢到令人无法接受的程度。我们建议美国医疗保健改进学会(AHI)主办一次题为“在改善医疗保健的第一线开展研究”的会议，以吸引和教育推动QI研究以提高医疗保健的质量、安全、效率和有效性所需的劳动力。这次会议的具体目的是：1)提供可应用于现实世界实践环境的医疗保健提供系统干预措施的研究设计和方法学学习；2)提供健康和医疗保健质量、成本和价值的测量方法，重点关注与患者相关并可由临床医生、患者和研究人员操作的数据；3)传播评估QI研究干预措施成功的可靠方法；4)传播学习和传播QI研究成果的可靠方法；以及5)提供加强QI研究的学术基础和资助政策的方法，以进一步增加科学的可信度。实现这些目标将带来一批卫生服务和QI研究人员，他们对QI方法有更多的了解，与会者和讲师之间的传播增加，将导致在不同环境下复制经过验证的方法，并加强AHRQ与其他专注于QI研究的实体的合作关系，包括以患者为中心的结果研究所和医疗保险和医疗补助创新中心。会议活动将包括各种学习方法，如主旨讲座、研讨会、小组讨论、摘要报告和研究咨询。大会发言人将包括来自多个领域的经验丰富的质量改进专家。会议将侧重于可应用于现实世界的方法，并将包括使用AHRQ优先群体的例子。会议记录将通过会议录像带和会议记录提要的网络链接在全国和国际上传播，并在各网站张贴。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Academy for Healthcare Improvement Conference Doing Research at the Front Line of Improving Health Care April 25-26, 2013, Washington, DC Metro Area Abstract The transformation of healthcare delivery requires a workforce with expertise in measurement, quality improvement (QI) science, and QI research. There is a critical need for researchers who can integrate rigorous, traditional health services research with rigorous QI science and QI research in settings that feature strong partnerships between multidisciplinary researchers and frontline providers who actually use QI science to improve care. Until this need is met, the pace and impact with which research improves health outcomes and care delivery will continue to be unacceptably slow. We propose that the Academy for Healthcare Improvement (AHI) sponsor a conference entitled "Doing Research at the Front Line of Improving Healthcare" to engage and educate the workforce required to advance QI research to improve the quality, safety, efficiency, and effectiveness of healthcare. The specific aims of this conference are to: 1) provide research design and methodology learning on healthcare delivery system interventions that can be applied in real-world practice settings, 2) provide methods of measurement of health and healthcare quality, cost and value, focusing on data that are relevant to patients and actionable by clinicians, patients and researchers, 3) disseminate robust methods of evaluating the success of QI research interventions, 4) disseminate robust methods of learning from and disseminating QI research results, and 5) provide ways to enhance the scholarly foundation and funding policies of QI research to further increase the credibility of the science. Achieving these aims will result in a group of health services and QI researchers with enhanced knowledge of QI methods, increased dissemination between conference participants and lecturers that will result in replication of proven methods across settings, and enhanced AHRQ collaborative relationships with other entities focused on QI research, including the Patient- Centered Outcomes Research Institute and the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation. Conference activities will include varied methods of learning, such as keynote lectures, workshops, panel discussions, abstract presentations, and research consultations. Conference speakers will include experienced quality improvement experts from several fields. Conference sessions will focus on methods that can be applied in real-world settings and will include examples using AHRQ priority populations. Conference proceedings will be disseminated nationally and internationally via web links of session videotapes and synopsis of proceedings for posting at various websites.