Research Insights: A Conference Grant Proposal to Disseminate Research on Health

描述（由申请人提供）：在过去三年中，通过AHRQ初始大型会议拨款资助的研究洞察系列成功地提供了一个独特的论坛，以识别和检查与卫生保健费用，融资和组织相关的证据，并突出证据基础缺乏的潜在研究主题。与会者的评价证明，这些会议和有关材料对向决策者提供建议的政策“中间人”很有用。作为研究见解系列的延续，我们更加强调通过网络研讨会的召集和传播方法进行创新，试图进一步扩大我们对国家政策制定者的影响。健康学院和AHRQ之间的这种伙伴关系的继续将加强它们各自的努力，以支持开展严格、及时的研究并向决策者传播研究结果。“研究见解”系列的延续旨在：1)以系列会议头三年建立的监测机制为基础，确定当前和新出现的有关保健费用、组织、市场和生产力的政策问题；2)确定所有主要资助者支持的关于这些内容领域的最新的、做得最好的研究；3)为研究人员和政策制定者之间就相关现有研究成果的影响和局限性创造对话机会。我们计划在未来三年的Research Insights系列中保留并扩展这些创新功能。研究洞察项目的核心将是每年举行一次30至40人参加的邀请会议和一次开放的网络研讨会。每年的会议和网络研讨会都将讨论相同或相关的主题。我们预计每年（2014- 2016）在2月、3月或4月举行面对面会议，相关的网络研讨会将在4至8周后举行。已成立的项目咨询委员会（PAC）将于每年9月举行会议，根据1)当前政策相关性确定会议主题并确定优先顺序；2)研究中相关证据的可得性；3)以往传播工作的差距。委员会成员亦会就会议议程、建议的主持人和发言人，以及每次会议的邀请，向职员提供意见。会议参与者将包括联邦和州政策中介机构以及领先的专家研究人员。未来三年，通过选题和有针对性的研究报告，AHRQ优先人口将得到更大的重视。每次会议都会有一份问题摘要，我们将通过我们的网站公开网络会议的录音。健康学院将继续使用参与者调查、互联网统计和PAC的反馈来评估拨款，但将扩展我们的评估，与问题摘要一起发送第二次参与者调查，以使用基于逻辑模型和变革理论的方法更好地衡量会议及其相关材料对参与者的影响和结果。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Over the past three years, the Research Insights series, funded through an initial AHRQ large conference grant, has successfully provided a unique forum to identify and examine evidence related to health care costs, financing, and organization and to highlight potentially researchable topics where the evidence base is lacking. Participant evaluations document that these meetings and associated materials have been useful to the policy "intermediaries" who advise decision makers. For the continuation of the Research Insights series, we place even greater emphasis on innovation through webinar methods of convening and dissemination in an attempt to further broaden our reach to state policymakers. The continuation of this partnership between AcademyHealth and AHRQ will augment their respective efforts to support the creation of rigorous, timely research and disseminate findings to decision makers. Continuation of the Research Insights series seeks to: 1) build upon the sentinel mechanism established during the first three years of the meeting series to identify current and emerging policy issues concerning health care costs, organization, markets and productivity; 2) identify the most current, well-done research on these content areas supported by all major funders of such work; and 3) create opportunities for dialogue among researchers and policymakers about the implications and limitations of relevant existing research findings. We plan to retain and expand these innovative features in the next three years of the Research Insights series. The heart of the Research Insights project will be the one invitational meeting of 30 to 40 participants and one open webinar to be held each year of the grant. Each year's meeting and webinar will be on the same or related topics. We anticipate holding the in-person meetings in February, March or April of each year (2014- 2016) and their associated webinars will follow four to eight weeks later. The established Project Advisory Committee (PAC) will meet in September of each year to identify and prioritize meeting topics based on 1) current policy relevance; 2) availability of relevant evidence from research; and 3) gaps in previous dissemination efforts. Members of the PAC will also advise staff about the agenda, suggested moderator and speakers, and invitations for each meeting. Meeting participants will include federal and state policy intermediaries and leading expert researchers. AHRQ Priority Populations will be given greater emphasis over the next three years through topic selection and targeted research presentations. Each meeting will result in an issue brief, and we will make webinar recordings publicly available through our website. AcademyHealth will continue to evaluate the grant using participant surveys, internet statistics, and feedback from the PAC but will expand our evaluation with a second participant survey sent in conjunction with the issue brief to better measure the impact and outcomes of the meeting and its related materials on participants using methods based on logic models and change theory.