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

描述(由申请人提供)：医疗决策学会(SMDM)是一个专业的研究组织，旨在促进医疗决策和行为科学的科学和方法严谨性，以及它们在临床护理和医疗政策中的应用。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，通过推动积极系统的方法进行临床决策和卫生保健政策的形成来改善健康结果”。在这项提案中，SMDM正在申请为期3年的会议赠款，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AHRQ优先人口有关的研究和政策问题，预计在未来十年将进行戏剧性的医疗保健改革。2014年、2105年和2016年会议的主题将侧重于与AHRQ优先人群相关的决策科学和应用研究，包括妇女、少数群体、低收入人群、居住在城市地区的人群、老年人和需要临终关怀的人群。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之间在这段时间里的持续合作和伙伴关系将推动一项共同议程，以改善年龄、性别、种族、族裔、文化和社会经济背景不同的人口的健康决策和健康结果的质量。这项会议拨款的具体目的是：1)在医疗改革时代推进与不同人群相关的跨学科医疗决策领域的研究方法；2)为医疗决策领域的最新研究培训、指导和职业发展提供一个论坛，促进包括妇女和少数族裔在内的受训者的职业发展；3)利用技术、社交媒体和创新的网络方法，在快速变化的医疗环境中最大限度地提高会议的出席、参与、传播和影响。AHRQ会议赠款将为实现这些目标提供支持，并扩大2014年、2015年和2016年SMMDM会议的影响。即将举行的会议的主题将集中在不同人群中的医疗决策(2014)、透明度、沟通和医疗改革的实施(2015)，以及医疗体系的重新设计(2016)。SMDM重视他们与AHRQ的关系，AHRQ被视为推动SMDM任务与研究、职业发展和卫生政策实施相关的目标的合作伙伴和利益相关者。即将出现的工作和产品的主体将被广泛传播，并在卫生保健改革的这个时代为临床实践、卫生政策和决策科学做出贡献。

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.