Annual Symposium for Pediatric Health Services Research

描述（由申请人提供）：目前我们对儿童和青少年健康服务的理解存在很大差距。卫生保健研究和质量机构（AHRQ）呼吁在结果、质量、成本、使用和获取等领域进行新的研究，以改善儿童的卫生保健服务。他们还承认，需要“滋养”正在进行儿童相关卫生服务研究的调查人员。目前，专门从事儿科健康服务研究的研究人员可以参加数量有限的会议。可用的选项在格式上非常传统， 在他们的规模，并可能不完全专注于儿科健康服务研究。因此，我们建议每年举行一次专题讨论会（即，年度研讨会儿科健康服务研究）将举行，将：（1）汇集建立和年轻的儿科健康服务调查，讨论最新的，前沿的研究领域，（2）提供网络 为儿童健康服务研究人员提供职业发展和指导，以及（4）制作前瞻性的白色论文，介绍儿童健康服务研究的未来方向，这些论文将使用传统的传播策略和更先进的方法（如社交媒体）进行传播。基于2011年秋季在印第安纳州大学医学院举行的第一届年度研讨会的成功，我们未来的研讨会将在全体会议和小组分组会议之间取得平衡。我们还将提供许多机会进行网络和非正式对话。会议还将在如何利用期刊增刊出版等传统技术以及播客、更新和博客等更先进的内容传播方法传播内容方面进行创新。儿科健康服务研究年度研讨会将重点关注研究开发（即，会议，确定医疗保健实践和提供方面的问题或挑战，并制定研究议程或研究战略）以及研究培训、基础设施和职业发展（即，教师、学员和学生与利益相关者聚集在一起，共同开发、分享或传播研究产品、经验、课程、教学大纲或培训能力的会议）。研讨会将提供一个引人注目的和翔实的会议，涵盖不同的AHRQ每年的兴趣领域。我们建议涵盖的领域是儿科比较有效性研究（2013年），以儿科为重点的医疗保健创新和新兴领域（2014年）和以儿科为重点的健康信息技术（2015年）。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): A large gap currently exists in our understanding of health services for children and adolescents. The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has called for new research in the areas of outcomes, quality, cost, use, and access in order to improve health care services for children. They have also acknowledged the need to "nourish" investigators who are conducting child-relevant health services research. Currently a limited number of conferences are available to investigators that specialize in pediatric health services research. The options that are available are very traditional in their format, large-scale in their size, and may not focus exclusively on pediatric health services research. Therefore, we are proposing that an annual symposium (i.e., Annual Symposium for Pediatric Health Services Research) be held that will: (1) Bring together established and young pediatric health services investigators to discuss the most current, cutting edge research in the field, (2) Offer networking opportunities across institutions that will lead to multi-institutional pediatric health services research collaborations, (3) Provide career development and mentorship for junior pediatric health services researchers, and (4) Produce forward-looking white papers on future directions of pediatric health services research that will be disseminated using traditional communication strategies and more advanced methods such as social media. Building on the success of our 1st Annual Symposium held in the fall of 2011 at the Indiana University School of Medicine, our future symposiums will offer a balance between plenary and small-group breakout sessions. We will also provide numerous opportunities for networking and informal conversations. The meeting will also be innovative in how its content is disseminated utilizing traditional techniques such as journal supplement publication, as well as more advanced methods of content dissemination including podcasts, updates, and blogs. The Annual Symposium for Pediatric Health Services Research will focus on research development (i.e., conferences where issues or challenges in the practice and delivery of health care are defined and a research agenda or strategy for studying them is developed) as well as research training, infrastructure and career development (i.e., conferences where faculty, trainees and students are brought together with stakeholders to develop, share or disseminate research products, experiences, curricula, syllabi, or training competencies). The symposium will provide a compelling and informative meeting covering a different AHRQ interest area each year. The areas we propose to cover are pediatric comparative effectiveness research (2013), pediatric-focused health care innovations and emerging areas (2014) and pediatric-focused health information technology (2015).