Medical Decision Making: Innovation in the Era of Health Care Reform

描述（由申请人提供）：医学决策学会（SMDM）是一个专业研究组织，旨在促进医疗保健决策和行为科学的科学和方法学严谨性及其在临床护理和卫生政策中的应用。SMDM的正式使命声明是“通过提供一个连接和教育研究人员、提供者、政策制定者和公众的学术论坛，促进医疗保健中临床决策和政策制定的积极系统方法，改善健康结果”。在这份提案中，SMDM正在申请为期3年的会议资助，以加强2014-2016年SMDM年会的重点，创新，传播和影响。特别是，会议支助将突出与预计在未来十年进行的重大保健改革背景下的AHRQ优先人口有关的研究和政策问题。2014年，2105年和2016年会议的主题将强调与AHRQ优先人群相关的决策科学和应用研究，包括妇女，少数民族，低收入人群，居住在城市地区的人，老年人和需要临终关怀的人。每次会议都将讨论医疗决策和卫生政策研究中的主要问题，这些问题具有相关性，挑战性，需要跨学科和严格的方法。AHRQ和SMDM在这几年中的持续合作和伙伴关系将推动一个共同的议程，以提高年龄，性别，种族，民族，文化和社会经济背景不同的人群的健康决策和健康结果的质量。该会议补助金的具体目标是：1）在医疗保健改革时代，推进与不同人群相关的医疗决策跨学科领域的研究方法，2）在促进包括妇女和少数民族在内的受训者职业发展的医疗决策领域，为最先进的研究培训，导师和职业发展提供论坛，以及3）利用技术、社交媒体、创新的网络方法，在快速变化的医疗保健环境中最大限度地提高会议的出席率、参与度、传播度和影响力。AHRQ会议赠款将为实现这些目标提供支持，并扩大SMDM 2014年，2015年和2016年会议的影响。未来会议的主题将集中在不同人群的医疗决策（2014年），透明度，沟通和医疗保健改革的实施（2015年），以及医疗保健系统的重新设计（2016年）。SMDM重视与AHRQ的关系，AHRQ被视为推进SMDM使命目标的合作伙伴和利益相关者，这些目标与研究、职业发展和卫生政策的实施有关。工作和产品的身体出现将广泛传播，并有助于临床实践，卫生政策和决策科学这个时代的卫生保健改革。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Society for Medical Decision Making (SMDM) is a professional research organization that promotes scientific and methodological rigor in health care decision and behavioral science and their application to clinical care and health policy. The formal mission statement of SMDM is "to improve health outcomes through the advancement of proactive systematic approaches to clinical decision-making and policy formation in health care by providing a scholarly forum that connects and educates researchers, providers, policy makers, and the public". In this proposal, SMDM is applying for a 3-year conference grant to enhance the focus, innovation, dissemination, and impact of the SMDM Annual Meetings in 2014-2016. In particular, the conference support will highlight research and policy issues pertaining to AHRQ priority populations in the context of dramatic health care reform that is anticipated in the coming decade. The themes for the 2014, 2105, and 2016 meetings will emphasize research in the decision sciences and applications relevant to AHRQ priority populations including women, minorities, lower income populations, those residing in urban areas, the elderly, and those requiring end of life care. Each meeting will address leading issues in medical decision-making and health policy research that are relevant, challenging, and require a trans-disciplinary and rigorous approach. A continued collaboration and partnership between AHRQ and SMDM over this period of years will advance a shared agenda to improve the quality of health decisions and health outcomes across populations diverse in age, gender, race, ethnicity, culture, and socio-economic backgrounds. The specific aims of this conference grant are to 1) advance research methods in the trans-disciplinary field of medical decision making relevant to diverse populations in the era of health care reform, 2) provide a forum for state of the art research training, mentorship, and career development, in the field of medical decision making that promotes career development for trainees including women and minorities, and 3) utilize technology, social media, innovative networking approaches to maximize attendance, participation, dissemination, and impact of the meeting in a rapidly changing health care environment. The AHRQ conference grant will provide support to achieve these aims and broaden the impact of the SMDM 2014, 2015, and 2016 meetings. Themes for the upcoming meetings will focus on medical decision making among diverse populations (2014), transparency, communication, and implementation of health care reform (2015), and health care system redesign (2016). SMDM values their relationship with AHRQ which is viewed as a partner and stakeholder in advancing the objectives of the SMDM mission relevant to research, career development, and implementation of health policy. The body of work and products to emerge will be broadly disseminated and contribute to clinical practice, health policy, and decision science this era of health care reform.