ECRI Institute Annual Health Policy Conference 3 Year Grant Application

描述(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：这些都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S即将于2014年、2015年和2016年举行的关于证据在政策和实践中的使用的年度会议的主题。在过去的二十年里，ECRI研究所建立了组织年度会议的声誉，这些会议已经解决并影响了医疗保健特别是AHRQ中的关键关注问题。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以证据为基础的信息。在我们的会议上，我们强调，我们必须能够评估证据的状况，而不是仅仅提出具有哲学意义的问题。2014年，我们正在研究复杂(也称为高风险)患者和日益复杂的医疗保健提供系统是如何相互作用的。2014年会议将讨论护理协调和过渡，以及医院内外的护理，并将介绍将在2015年和2016年会议上讨论的主题。2015年，我们的会议将与国家癌症研究所和其他机构合作，审查以患者为中心的癌症护理。2016年，大会将集中讨论处方药的使用、误用和滥用。这些会议的主要目的是作为重要对话的推动力，并促进重大研究。过去的会议主题包括数据的大小、以患者为中心、比较有效性、个性化医疗和系统性。我们与公共和私人组织有着长期的合作，这些组织与我们一起讨论我们的会议主题。美国退伍军人事务部、宾夕法尼亚大学卫生系统和Kaiser Permanente已同意在这些会议上发挥主导作用。与往年一样，这些会议将有500名面对面的观众。ECRI研究所的会议没有收到任何商业赞助。这些会议是免费的，对所有人开放。所有演讲者都贡献自己的时间，不获得酬金。他们会支付与旅行相关的费用。这些会议的主题及其对审查证据的重视使它们对当前的医疗保健环境以及AHRQ及其正在进行的倡议具有极大的价值和重要性。

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.