ECRI Institute Annual Health Policy Conference 3 Year Grant Application

描述（由申请人提供）：复杂的患者，以患者为中心的癌症护理，以及处方药的使用、误用和滥用：这些是影响整个护理过程中利益相关者的紧迫问题，也是ECRI研究所即将在2014年、2015年和2016年召开的政策和实践中使用证据的年度会议的主题。在过去的二十年中，ECRI研究所在组织年度会议方面建立了声誉，这些会议讨论并影响了医疗保健，特别是AHRQ的关键问题。ECRI研究所每年召开这些会议，因为该组织致力于向公众传播循证信息。在我们的会议上，我们强调我们必须能够评估证据的地位，而不仅仅是提出哲学上有趣的问题。2014年，我们将研究复杂（高风险）患者与日益复杂的医疗服务系统之间的相互作用。2014年会议将讨论护理协调和过渡以及医院内外护理，并将介绍将在2015年和2016年会议上讨论的主题。2015年，我们将与国家癌症研究所和其他机构合作，探讨以患者为中心的癌症治疗。2016年，会议将集中讨论处方药的使用、误用和滥用问题。这些会议的主要目的是推动重要的对话和促进重要的研究。过去的会议主题包括大数据和小数据、以患者为中心、比较有效性、个性化医疗和系统性。我们与与我们一起讨论会议主题的公共和私人组织有长期合作关系。美国退伍军人部、宾夕法尼亚大学卫生系统和凯撒医疗机构已同意在这些会议中发挥主导作用。这些会议，就像过去几年的会议一样，将有500名观众到场。ECRI研究所的会议不接受任何商业赞助。这些会议是免费向所有人开放的。所有演讲者都贡献了自己的时间，没有酬金。他们有旅行相关费用。这些会议的主题及其对审查证据的强调使它们对当前的医疗保健环境和AHRQ及其正在进行的倡议具有很大的价值和重要性。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Complex patients, Patient-Centered Cancer Care, and the Use, Misuse, and Abuse of Prescription Drugs: These are pressing issues that are affecting stakeholders across the continuum of care, and they are the topics of ECRI Institute s forthcoming annual conferences on the use of evidence in policy and practice in 2014, 2015, and 2016. For the past twenty years, ECRI Institute has built a reputation for organizing annual conferences which have been addressed and influenced issues of critical concern in healthcare and to AHRQ in particular. ECRI Institute convenes these conferences each year because the organization is dedicated to disseminating evidence-based information to the public. With our conferences, we stress that we must be able to assess the status of the evidence and not just pose questions that are philosophically interesting. In 2014, we are examining how complex (aka high risk ) patients and increasingly complex healthcare delivery systems interact. The 2014 conference will address care coordination and transitions, and care in and out of the hospital and will introduce the themes that will be addressed in the 2015 and 2016 conferences. In 2015, in partnership with the National Cancer Institute and others, our conference will be examining patient-centered cancer care. And in 2016, the conference will be focused on the use, misuse, and abuse of prescription drugs. The main objective of these conferences is to serve as the impetus for important conversations and to stimulate significant research. Past conference topics have included data big and small, patient- centeredness, comparative effectiveness, personalized medicine, and systemness. We have long-standing collaborations with public and private organizations that join us in addressing our conference themes. The U.S. Department of Veterans, the University of Pennsylvania Health System, and Kaiser Permanente have agreed to play lead roles in these conferences. These conferences, as like those in past years, will have an in-person audience that we estimate will be 500. ECRI Institute receives no commercial sponsorship for its conferences. These conferences are free and open to all. All speakers contribute their time and are not paid honoraria. They are paid travel associated expenses. The themes of these conferences and their emphasis on examining the evidence make them of great value and importance to the current healthcare climate and to AHRQ and its on-going initiatives.